Talking Trojan: Speech and Community in the Iliad

by Hilary Mackie

Book Overview

In this penetrating new look at the use of language in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms not only of nationality but of linguistics. The way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, Mackie argues, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative positions in the Trojan War. While Achaean speech is aggressive and public, intended to preserve social order, Trojan language is more reflective,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847682544
• ISBN13: 9780847682546
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages