The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
- Editore:
Harvard University Press
- Collana:
- Hellenic Studies Series
- EAN:
9780674021433
- ISBN:
0674021436
- Pagine:
- 230
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the "Iliad." Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the "Iliad." The six additional essays included in this volume--some of them classics, some never before published--cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus.