The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the "Odyssey"

by William G. Thalmann

The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period, but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to apply literary and social science theory in order to reveal Homeric epic as a form of class discourse within the context of early Greek social and political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801434793
• ISBN13: 9780801434792
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"