Author: ROSE, PETER G.
Title: Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece
Description: Cornell University Press, 1992. Paperback. ISBN: 0801499836. Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). Light wear to corners of wraps. ; 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 heroes--is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Sophokles' Philoktetes, and Plato's Republic. ; 412 pages. Very Good+ .

Keywords: 0801499836 Greek Literature Poetry & Poets Classical Greek & Roman


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