Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece

Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece

In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence-beliefs about descent from gods or her...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rose, Peter W. 1936- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2019
1992.
Materias:
Marxist criticism.
Politics and literature > Greece.
Literary form > History > To 1500.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Greece > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424427306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Marxism and the Classics
  • 1. How Conservative Is the Iliad?
  • 2. Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey
  • 3. Historicizing Pindar: Pythian 10
  • 4. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Dialectical Inheritance
  • 5. Sophokles' Philoktetes and the Teachings of the Sophists: A Counteroffensive
  • 6. Plato's Solution to the Ideological Crisis of the Greek Aristocracy
  • Afterword
  • References
  • Index

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