ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 265 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]
Show/Hide image

Oxford University Press, USA 2019 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 280 p.

Oxford Univ Pr 2019 Hardcover New 265 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.

Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2019. Hardcover. New. 265 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. 2019. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0190909676 9780190909673 [GB]

New York, NY OUP USA 2019 Hard cover New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: OUP USA 2019-02-21, New York, NY] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0190909676, ISBN13: 9780190909673, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey --Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors -- is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the Odyssey. But is Odysseus' triumph over the suitors as univocally celebratory as is often assumed? Does the poem contain and even suggest other, darkerinterpretations of Odysseus' greatest achievement?This book offers a careful analysis of several other revenge plots in the Odyssey -- those of Orestes, Poseidon, Zeus, and the suitors' relatives. It showshow these revenge stories color one another with allusions (explicit and implicit) that connect them and invite audiences to interpret them in light of one another. These stories -- especially Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors -- inevitably turn out to have multiple meanings. One plot of revenge slips into another as the offender in one story becomes a victim to be avenged in the next. As a result, Odysseus turns out to be a much more ambivalent hero than has been commonly accepted. And in theOdyssey's portrayal, revenge is an unstable foundation for a community. Revenge also ends up being a tenuous narrative structure for an epic poem, as a natural end to cycles of vengeance ...
Show/Hide image