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100 1 $aCollins, Derek.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97027397
245 10 $aImmortal armor :$bthe concept of Alkē in archaic Greek poetry /$cDerek Collins.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bRowman & Littlefield,$c1998.
263 $a9801
300 $a137 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aGreek studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [126]-131) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPossession, Armor, and the Death of Patroklos --$g2.$tThe Alke from Zeus and the Ambiguities of Signification --$g3.$tThe Remembering of Alke and the Danger of Forgetting.
520 $aAlthough military concepts in Homeric poetry have been studied since Alexandrian times, there has not been until now an extended study of the concept of alke, "defensive strength," as it unfolds intertextually within the Iliad and the Odyssey and archaic Greek poetry in general.
520 8 $aDerek Collins uses evidence from Homeric poetry to reveal that alke, unlike other concepts of strength in archaic Greek, plays a central role in defining a warrior at the peak of his prowess, which can be related in turn to alke's application to kings and to its use by Zeus and Athena as a divine emblem of warfare. Collins also shows how alke functions poetically as a plot device for the Odyssey as the poem retrospectively views the Iliad.
520 8 $aFinally, by integrating evidence from linguistics, anthropology, and comparative literature, Collins argues that the meaning of alke cannot be divorced from the oral traditional media from which it emerges and that alke's conceptual structure depends as much on archaic Greek as it does on the poetic demands of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
650 0 $aGreek poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105402
650 0 $aWar in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145182
650 0 $aMilitary art and science in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001213
650 0 $aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103292
650 0 $aEthics, Ancient, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004071
600 00 $aHomer$xCharacters$xHeroes.
650 0 $aSoldiers in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124590
650 0 $aCourage in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003703
650 0 $aHeroes in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85060436
650 0 $aAlkē (The Greek word)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97006751
830 0 $aGreek studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92099597
852 00 $bglx$hPA3015.W46$iC65 1998