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The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad - Softcover

Zanker, Graham

 
9780472084005: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472084003 ISBN 13: 9780472084005
Verlag: University of Michigan Press, 1996

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In The Heart of Achilles, Graham Zanker addresses the task of reconstructing the ethical thought-world in which the characters of the Iliad live and move. It is only against this background, Zanker argues, that we can convincingly place the ethical status of the heroes and their actions. This in turn helps us to form a comprehensive view of the Iliad'scharacterization of its people, especially that of Achilles, by examining all his responses to the question of allegiance, the value of heroic prowess, and of life itself.
"[Zanker] investigates altruistic behavior in the epic with professional sophistication but in a way that makes his investigation available to a wide audience from undergraduates to advanced scholars. . . . [A] very useful interpretative study." --Choice
Graham Zanker is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Graham Zanker is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Verlag
University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472084003
ISBN 13 
9780472084005
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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