Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond (Greek Studies Free

Author: Richard Kerr Holway
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0739146904

Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)

Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Get Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond (Greek Studies diet books 2013 for free.
Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic, glory-seeking ancient Greek cultures. Not only aggression but knowledge of sacrificial parenting must be purged.

Just as Zeus contrives to have threats to his regime play out harmlessly (to him) in the mortal realm, so the Iliad dramatizes threats to Archaic and later Greek cultures in the safe arena of poetic performance. The epic represents in displaced form destructive mother-son and father-daughter liaisons and resulting strife Check Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond (Greek Studies our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.