Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad by Donna F. Wilson

Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad

Donna F. Wilson

252 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Wilson examines the nature of compensation--ransom and revenge--in the liad, offering a fundamentally new reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. She presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, located in the wider co...

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