The Swineherd and the Bow : Representations of Class in the Odyssey

by: Thalmann, W.G.

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 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." "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, implicity, epic poetry generally - as an intervention in the conflicts that surrounded the birth of the polis.

Foreword vii (2)
Gregory Nagy
Acknowledgments ix (4)
Note on Citations and Names xiii
Introduction 1 (12)
Part I. Some "Minor" Characters in the Odyssey 13 (96)
1. Relations of Dependency: Some Themes and Issues
13 (36)
2. The View from Above: The Representation of Slaves in the Odyssey
49 (60)
Part II. Oikos and Community: The Contest of the Bow Introduction to Part II: Competitive Performances 109 (6)
3. Household, Honor, and the Violence of Competition
115 (56)
4. The Contest at the Hearth: Family Values with a Vengeance
171 (68)
Part III. Paradigms and Audiences Introduction to Part III: Appropriating Paradigms 239 (4)
5. The Dark Age and Hierarchy
243 (29)
6. The Odyssey as Social Process
272 (35)
Bibliography 307 (14)
Index 321

Series:
Myth and poetics

xiii, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

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The Swineherd and the Bow : Representations of Class in the Odyssey

by: Thalmann, W.G.

• ISBN-13: 9780801434792 / 978-0-8014-3479-2
• ISBN-03: 0801434793 / 0-8014-3479-3
• Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1998

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