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Paola Bassino - Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry - 9781107175747 - V9781107175747
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Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

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Description for Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry hardcover. A fresh and wide-ranging exploration across the whole of early Greek hexameter poetry, focusing on issues of poetics and metapoetics. Editor(s): Bassino, Paola; Canevaro, Lilah Grace; Graziosi, Barbara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should reign, as do the other major poems of the early Greek hexameter tradition: Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns describe divine clashes that unbalance the cosmos; Hesiod's Works and Days stems from a quarrel between brothers. These early Greek poems generated consensus among audiences: the reason why they reached us is that people agreed on their value. This volume, accordingly, explores conflict and consensus from a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107175747
SKU
V9781107175747
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-20

About Paola Bassino
Paola Bassino is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Winchester. She has published articles on the biographical tradition of the Greek epic poets, and is the author of a forthcoming edition and commentary of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi. Her current research includes a study of the interactions between the Sophists and the epic tradition and of the ... Read more

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