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12%OFFJ. C. B. Petropoulos - Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince - 9780674055926 - V9780674055926
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Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince

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Description for Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince Paperback. As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. This book presents a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece; 1 line. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.

As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than “fame” or “glory.” Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative—principally an “oral history,” a “life story” or ultimately an “oral tradition.” When broken down into its twin constituents, “words” and “actions” or “deeds,” a hero’s kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being.

This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change was appreciated by ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Hellenic Studies Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674055926
SKU
V9780674055926
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About J. C. B. Petropoulos
J. C. B. Petropoulos is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Department of Greek Philology, Democritean University of Thrace, and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece.

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