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Pages: 318
Authors: Dean Hammer
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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"In this first full-length treatment of the Iliad as a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer's epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on po
Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Dennis R. MacDonald
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-25 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation myt
Homer's Hero
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Pages: 274
Authors: Michelle M. Kundmueller
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Offering a new, Plato-inspired reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this book traces the divergent consequences of love of honor and love of one's own private
Becoming Achilles
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Richard Holway
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, Richard Holway exposes sacrificial childrearing practices at the root of competitive, glory-se
The Origin of the Political
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Roberto Esposito
Categories: Philosophy
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In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and S