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050 00 $aPA4167$b.T455 1998
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100 1 $aThalmann, William G.,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78016530
245 14 $aThe swineherd and the bow :$brepresentations of class in the Odyssey /$cWilliam G. Thalmann.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c1998.
300 $axiii, 330 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMyth and poetics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-319) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rGregory Nagy --$gPt. I.$tSome "Minor" Characters in the Odyssey.$g1.$tRelations of Dependency: Some Themes and Issues.$g2.$tThe View from Above: The Representation of Slaves in the Odyssey --$gPt. II.$tOikos and Community: The Contest of the Bow --$tIntroduction to Part II: Competitive Performances.$g3.$tHousehold, Honor, and the Violence of Competition.$g4.$tThe Contest at the Hearth: Family Values with a Vengeance --$gPt. III.$tParadigms and Audiences --$tIntroduction to Part III: Appropriating Paradigms.$g5.$tThe Dark Age and Hierarchy.$g6.$tThe Odyssey as Social Process.
520 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aThalmann 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.
520 8 $aThalmann 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.
600 00 $aHomer.$tOdyssey.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80008528
650 0 $aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103292
600 00 $aOdysseus,$cKing of Ithaca (Mythological character)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreece$xHistory.
600 00 $aHomer$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aSocial classes in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123925
830 0 $aMyth and poetics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86724594
852 00 $bglx$hPA4167$i.T455 1998