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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad Book
Wilson examines the nature of compensation--ransom and revenge--in the Iliad, offering a fundamentally new reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilleus. She presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, located in the wider context of agonistic exchange, to demonstrate how the struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system of Homeric society. Ransom, Revenge and Heroic Identity in the Iliad thus asserts the integral role of compensation in the traditional, cultural and poetic matrix of this foundational epic.Read More
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