The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays

Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the "Iliad." Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the "Iliad." The six additional essays included in this volume--some of them classics, some never before published--cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus.

Riassunto

Slatkin’s influential book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad, showing how our awareness of alternative myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis’s place in the Epic’s thematic structure. This edition also includes six additional essays, which cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Slatkin, Laura M. Slatkin
• Editore: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780674021433
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02143-3
• Pagine: 248
• Dimensioni: 229 mm x 152 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 400 g
• Serie: Hellenic Studies; Hellenic Studies; Hellenic Studies Series; Center for Hellenic Studies and the Foundation of the Hellenic World (HUP); Center for Hellenic Studies and the Foundation of the Hellenic World
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese