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 /

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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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Main Author: Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Grieks.
Letterkunde.
Vertelkunst.
Ideologie.
Politics and literature.
Politics and government.
Marxist criticism.
Literary form.
Greek literature.
Genres litteraires.
Critique marxiste.
Politique et litterature > Grece.
Litterature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Politics and literature > Greece.
Literary form > History > To 1500.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Greece.
Grece > Politique et gouvernement.
Greece > Politics and government.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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