UID:
almafu_9959234531202883
Format:
1 online resource (532 pages) ;
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9780674244184
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9780674075429
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0-674-07544-7
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0-674-07542-0
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9780674241688
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9780674073401
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(hardback)
Content:
In this book based on the Harvard University course he has taught and refined since the late 1970s, Gregory Nagy argues that the ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today--and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and Herakles. In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities by virtue of being descended from an immortal god. Despite their mortality, heroes, like the gods, were objects of cult worship. Nagy examines this distinctively religious notion of the hero in its many dimensions, in texts spanning the eighth to fourth centuries BCE: the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey; tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eruipides; songs of Sappho and Pindar; and the dialogues of Plato. All works are presented in English translation, with attention to the subtleties of the original Greek. This is a revised paperback edition of the hardcover published in 2013.--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Heroes in Epic and Lyric Poetry""; ""Hour 1. The Homeric Iliad and the Glory of the Unseasonal Hero""; ""Hour 2. Achilles as Epic Hero and the Idea of Total Recall in Song""; ""Hour 3. Achilles and the Poetics of Lament""; ""Hour 4. Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar""; ""Hour 5. When Mortals Become �Equal� to Immortals: Death of a Hero, Death of a Bridegroom""; ""Hour 6. Patroklos as the Other Self of Achilles""; ""Hour 7. The Sign of the Hero in Visual and Verbal Art""
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""Hour 8. The Psychology of the Hero�s Sign In the Homeric Illiad""""Hour 9. The Return of Odysseus In the Homeric Odyssey""; ""Hour 10. The Mind of Odysseus In the Homeric Odyssey""; ""Hour 11. Blessed are the Heroes: the Cult Hero In Homeric Poetry and Beyond""; ""Hour 12. The Cult Hero as an Exponent of Justice In Homeric Poetry and Beyond""; ""Part Two: Heroes in Prose Media""; ""Hour 13. A Crisis in Reading the World of Heroes""; ""Hour 14. Longing for a Hero: A Retrospective""; ""Hour 15. What the Hero �Means�""; ""Part Three: Heroes in Tragedy""
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""Hour 16. Heroic Aberration In the Agamemnon of Aeschylus""""Hour 17. Looking Beyond the Cult Hero In the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus""; ""Hour 18. Sophocles� Oedipus at Colonus and the Power of the Cult Hero in Death""; ""Hour 19. Sophocles� Oedipus Tyrannus and Heroic Pollution""; ""Hour 20. The Hero as Mirror of Men�s and Women�s Experiences In the Hippolytus of Euripides""; ""Hour 21. The Hero�s Agony In the Bacchae of Euripides""; ""Part Four: Heroes In Two Dialogues of Plato""; ""Hour 22. The Living Word I: Socrates In Plato�s Apology of Socrates""
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""Hour 23: The Living Word II: More On Plato�s Socrates In the Phaedo""""Part Five: Heroes Transcended""; ""Hour 24. The Hero as Savior""; ""Core Vocabulary of Key Greek Words""; ""Abbreviations""; ""References""; ""Index Locorum""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-07340-1
Language:
English
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