Kleos in a minor key : The Homeric education of a little prince

by: Petropoulos, J.C.B.

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 As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. In the Odyssey, 'glory' may be ascribed to a hero or even a heroine for far more reasons than in the Iliad. Either way, kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrativeûprincipally an 'oral history', a 'life story' or ultimately an 'oral tradition'. When broken down into its twin constituents, 'words' and 'actions' or 'deeds', a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos finds himself in. Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change, nowadays acknowledged by most specialists, was appreciated by Homer's audiences. As this book shows through philological and interdisciplinary analysis, Prince Telemachos grows up in the course of the Telemachy and arguably even beyond (in book 24): his education, which is conceived largely as an apprenticeship on land and sea, admits him gradually if unevenly to a Full-fledged adult kleos, a kleos that nonetheless necessarily remains minor in comparison to that of his father and other elders. -

Kleos and oral history
Kleos and oral news
Kleos and social identity
The little prince's voyage in a borrowed ship
Of beards and boar hunts, or, coming of age in the Odyssey
The end of the telemachy: the culmination of extinction?

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Education of princes in literature
Ehre
Epic poetry, Greek
Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism
Erziehung
Fathers and sons in literature
Gloire dans la littérature
Glory in literature
Homer
Homer Characters Telemachus
Homerus ca. v8. Jh
Literature
Maturation (Psychologie) dans la littérature
Maturation (Psychology) in literature
Motiv
Odyssey (Homer)
Pères et fils dans la littérature
Poésie épique grecque Histoire et critique
Princes Éducation, dans la littérature
Princes dans la littérature
Princes in literature
Ruhm
Telemachos
Telemachus (Mythological character)
Telemachus (Mythological character) In literature

Series:
Hellenic studies, 45

xiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Kleos in a minor key : The Homeric education of a little prince

by: Petropoulos, J.C.B.

• ISBN-13: 9780674055926 / 978-0-674-05592-6
• ISBN-03: 0674055926 / 0-674-05592-6
• Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011

Price: 27,00 EURO

1 copy in stock