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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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