Nature and Culture in the "Iliad": Tragedy of Hector - Hardcover

Redfield, James M.

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9780226706511: Nature and Culture in the "Iliad": Tragedy of Hector

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ISBN 10: 0226706516 ISBN 13: 9780226706511

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1975

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Very Good, 1st Edition. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In bright bronze lettered beige cloth, together with original illustrated matt dustwrapper, gently chipped to spine and upper edges. 'Redfield poses the question: Why do we care about these stories which are so far from us and which we know are not true?' A great addition to the library of reader, classicist and collector alike.

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"From time to time there appear Homeric studies that speak to a wide range of readers . . . "Nature and Culture in the Iliad" is in that company. It opened up new prespective on the poem and its poet and remains as stimulating today as when it first appeared."—James Tatum, Dartmouth College

"A fine reading of the" Iliad" [and] a pioneering attempt to apply the insights and methods of cultural anthropology to the warrior culture of the poem. . . ."—Charles Segal, Harvard University

"Redfield's memorable study of the literary and cultural values of Homer's "Iliad" shines with wisdom and humanity on every page. I know of no other work on the epic that so consistently reaches this level of insight and inspiration."—Fromma Zeitlin, Princeton University

"A fine reading of the" Iliad" [and] a pioneering attempt to apply the insights and methods of cultural anthropology to the warrior culture of the poem. . . ."--Charles Segal, Harvard University

"A fine reading of the Iliad [and] a pioneering attempt to apply the insights and methods of cultural anthropology to the warrior culture of the poem. . . ."--Charles Segal, Harvard University

"From time to time there appear Homeric studies that speak to a wide range of readers . . . Nature and Culture in the Iliad is in that company. It opened up new prespective on the poem and its poet and remains as stimulating today as when it first appeared."--James Tatum, Dartmouth College

"Redfield's memorable study of the literary and cultural values of Homer's Iliad shines with wisdom and humanity on every page. I know of no other work on the epic that so consistently reaches this level of insight and inspiration."--Fromma Zeitlin, Princeton University

Review:

"A fine reading of the Iliad [and] a pioneering attempt to apply the insights and methods of cultural anthropology to the warrior culture of the poem. . . ."—Charles Segal, Harvard University

"From time to time there appear Homeric studies that speak to a wide range of readers . . . Nature and Culture in the Iliad is in that company. It opened up new prespective on the poem and its poet and remains as stimulating today as when it first appeared."—James Tatum, Dartmouth College

"Redfield's memorable study of the literary and cultural values of Homer's Iliad shines with wisdom and humanity on every page. I know of no other work on the epic that so consistently reaches this level of insight and inspiration."—Fromma Zeitlin, Princeton University

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