Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince

by Jonathan Petropoulos

As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than "fame" or "glory." Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." When broken down into its twin constituents, "words" and "actions" or "deeds," a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674055926
• ISBN13: 9780674055926
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"