Achilles:
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Beteilige Person: González González, Marta (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, NY Routledge 2019
Ausgabe:First issued in paperback 2019
Schriftenreihe:Gods and heroes of the ancient world
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Abstract:Achilles presents the different episodes in the life of this hero conventionally, in chronological order, based on the Greek sources: birth, education, deeds in Troy, death, and subsequent destiny as a figure of worship. On the other hand, this study employs the hero Achilles to reflect on various issues, all of them crucial for historians of the Greek world: what it meant to be and become a man in ancient Greece, what a hero's aretê consisted of, how the Greeks represented the concepts of friendship and camaraderie, what moved them to revenge or reconciliation, what hopes they harboured as they faced their fate, how they imagined something as difficult to conceive of as a human sacrifice, and how they developed their ideas about the afterlife and hero cult.--Back cover
Umfang:xii, 152 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780367901189