Becoming Achilles - Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Lliad and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Richard Holway has a PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. The history and social sciences editor at the University of Virginia Press, he teaches in the Department of Politics and the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Virginia. Klappentext Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, Richard Holway exposes sacrificial childrearing practices at the root of competitive, glory-seeking ancient Greek cultures. The Iliad dramatizes and cathartically purges not only strife within and between generations but knowledge of sacrificial parenting. Holway's analysis yields a new reading of the Iliad, from its first word to its last, and a revised account of the family dynamics underlying ancient Greek cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Holway, Richard Kerr Holway
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2011
• EAN: 9780739146903
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4690-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works