Belted heroes and bound women
the myth of the Homeric warrior-king
by Bennett, Michael J.
This clearly written book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and athlete into a supreme image of political power. The special "heroic warrior's belts" (zosteres) worn by Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Nestor served as unimpeachable visual emblems of their exalted positions of rank.
The feminine counterpart, or zone, presented the woman as superior in the competitive arena of love. Bennett also makes several important iconographic interpretations that provide fundamentally new insights into early Greek oral epic compositional techniques, conceptions of time, and cosmological structure. Belted Heroes and Bound Women will be of interest to scholars and students of early Greek art, history, and literature.
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Clothing and dress in literature, Belts (Clothing), Knowledge, Literature and society, History and criticism, Heroes in literature, Civilization, Clothing and dress, Greek literature, Women in literature, Homer, Mythology, greek, Knowledge and learning, Manners and customsPeople
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Belted heroes and bound women: the myth of the Homeric warrior-king
1997, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
in English
0822630605 9780822630609
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-217) and index.
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