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 ...
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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]