The World of OdysseusThe World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece. |
Contents
Bards and Heroes | 18 |
Wealth and Labor | 46 |
Household Kin and Community | 71 |
Morals and Values | 109 |
The World of Odysseus Revisited | 147 |
Schliemanns TroyOne Hundred Years After | 166 |
Bibliographical Essay 187 | 187 |
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Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon Alcinous ancient Antilochus archaeology archaic aristocratic assembly Athena Athenian audience bard battle behavior Blegen booty Bronze Age called century B.C. chariot contemporary demos Diomedes divine documents early Dark Age epic essential Eumaeus Eurymachus excavation fact father feast Finley formulas gave gift-giving gifts goddess gods Greece Greek Greek world guest-friends heart Hector Hellenic heroes heroic poetry Hesiod Hissarlik historian Homeric poems honor household human Iliad Iliad and Odyssey Ithaca J. F. POWERS king Laertes language later Linear B tablets lines matter Menelaus ment modern moral Mycenaean Mycenaean Greece myth narrative Nestor never nobles Oghuz oikos Olympus once palace Penelope Phaeacians poet poet’s poetic Poseidon Priam primitive proper prowess Pylos remained rule Scheria Schliemann sense ships slave social society stranger suitors tale Telemachus Thersites thing tion treasure Trojan Trojan War Troy VIIa values word world of Odysseus Zeus