The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays (Hellenic Studies Series)
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The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays (Hellenic Studies Series)

Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the Iliad. The six additional essays included in this volume--some of them classics, some never before published--cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus.

  • TitleThe Power of Thetis and Selected Essays (Hellenic Studies Series)
  • BrandThe Center for Hellenic Studies
  • ManufacturerCenter for Hellenic Studies
  • BindingPaperback
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  • EANs9780674021433