Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should reign, as do the other major poems of the early Greek hexameter tradition: Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns describe divine clashes that unbalance the cosmos; Hesiod's Works and Days stems from a quarrel between brothers. These early Greek poems generated consensus among audiences: the reason why they reached us is that people agreed on their value. This volume, accordingly, explores conflict and consensus from a dual p…
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- ISBN: 978-1-316-81196-2
- EAN: 9781316811962
- Produktnummer: 24247034
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'424 KB
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