1. The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey Myth and Poetics
by Thalmann William G. 
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Description: Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, Date: 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New and unread book in Fine DJ, now in clear protective cover. xiii, 330pp inc. textual notes, Bibliography, Index. Uncommon. 1998. Cornell University Press ISBN 0801434793 9780801434792 [US] 

2. The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the 'Odyssey'
by Thaimann, William G. 
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Description: ISBN10: 0801434793, ISBN13: 9780801434792, [publisher: Cornell University Press] Hardcover First Edition Cream and black boards and illustrated DJ are AS New. Text is pristine and binding as if unread. First Cornell University Press edition. Very scarce. [Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]  

3. The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey.
by Thalmann, William G.: 
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Description: ISBN10: 0801434793, ISBN13: 9780801434792, [publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press] Hardcover XIII, 330 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Pencil annotation on endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. / Bleistiftanmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Foreword by Gregory Nagy -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations and Names -- Introduction -- Part I. Some "Minor" Characters in the Odyssey -- 1. Relations of Dependency: Some Themes and Issues -- 2. The View from Above: The Representation of Slaves in the Odyssey -- Part II. Oikos and Community: The Contest of the Bow Introduction to Part II: Competitive Performances -- 3. Household, Honor, and the Violence of Competition -- 4. The Contest at the Hearth: Family Values with a Vengeance -- Part III. Paradigms and Audiences. Introduction to Part III: Appropriating Paradigms -- 5. The Dark Age and Hierarchy -- 6. The Odyssey as Social Process -- Bibliography -- Index. - The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to apply literary and social science theory to reveal Homeric epic as a form of class discourse within the context of early Greek social and political development. Drawing on recent scholarship in archaeology and cultural anthropology, Thalmann considers the evolution of Greek culture up to the formation of the polis in the late eighth century b.c. He demonstrates that Greek society was already stratified well before that date and that the distinction between an elite and other classes was well developed. Thalmann concentrates on the representation of slaves and on the dynamics of competition and family structure in the contest of the bow to interpret the Odyssey—and, implicitly, epic poetry generally—as an intervention in the conflicts that surrounded the birth of the polis. In the interests of the aristocracy, the poem appropriates a traditional cultural paradigm, enshrined in the story of the Hero’s return. The distortions of dark age reality, Thalmann maintains, should form the basis of a historicizing reading of the poem. - William G. Thalmann is Professor of Classics, University of Southern California. He is the author of three books, most recently The Odyssey: An Epic of Return. ISBN 9780801434792 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 691 Original half cloth with dust jacket in additional plastic. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1998]  

4. The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey.
by Thalmann, William G.: 
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Description: ISBN10: 0801434793, ISBN13: 9780801434792, [publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press] Hardcover XIII, 330 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Pencil annotation on endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. / Bleistiftanmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Foreword by Gregory Nagy -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations and Names -- Introduction -- Part I. Some "Minor" Characters in the Odyssey -- 1. Relations of Dependency: Some Themes and Issues -- 2. The View from Above: The Representation of Slaves in the Odyssey -- Part II. Oikos and Community: The Contest of the Bow Introduction to Part II: Competitive Performances -- 3. Household, Honor, and the Violence of Competition -- 4. The Contest at the Hearth: Family Values with a Vengeance -- Part III. Paradigms and Audiences. Introduction to Part III: Appropriating Paradigms -- 5. The Dark Age and Hierarchy -- 6. The Odyssey as Social Process -- Bibliography -- Index. - The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to apply literary and social science theory to reveal Homeric epic as a form of class discourse within the context of early Greek social and political development. Drawing on recent scholarship in archaeology and cultural anthropology, Thalmann considers the evolution of Greek culture up to the formation of the polis in the late eighth century b.c. He demonstrates that Greek society was already stratified well before that date and that the distinction between an elite and other classes was well developed. Thalmann concentrates on the representation of slaves and on the dynamics of competition and family structure in the contest of the bow to interpret the Odyssey—and, implicitly, epic poetry generally—as an intervention in the conflicts that surrounded the birth of the polis. In the interests of the aristocracy, the poem appropriates a traditional cultural paradigm, enshrined in the story of the Hero’s return. The distortions of dark age reality, Thalmann maintains, should form the basis of a historicizing reading of the poem. - William G. Thalmann is Professor of Classics, University of Southern California. He is the author of three books, most recently The Odyssey: An Epic of Return. ISBN 9780801434792 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 691 Original half cloth with dust jacket in additional plastic. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1998]