The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley, M. I. Finley, Bernard Knox (Introduction)
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- Pub. Date: September 2002
- 232pp
- Sales Rank: 314,045
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- Pub. Date: September 2002
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- Format: Paperback, 232pp
- Sales Rank: 314,045
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- ISBN-13: 9781590170175
- ISBN: 1590170172
Synopsis
This work is cited in the third edition of Books for College Libraries. Basing his suppositions on close readings of Homer's epics the Odyssey and Iliad, Finley puts forth a sociological argument that the texts, although fictions, reflected actual social realities of the times portrayed. His analysis with regard to the practice of reciprocal gift-giving, though controversial at the time of original publication, has come to be widely accepted. This appears to be a reprint of the 1977 revised edition of the original 1954 text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
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World of Odysseusby Anonymous
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May 15, 2004: I've assigned this book to Ancient Civ. students since ever I've been teaching. It's a book that caught my own interest in Mycenaean and Dark Age Greece twenty years ago, and it's invaluable-- gracefully and powerfully written, and done by one of the finest (if sometimes idiosyncratic) ancient historians of our day. It needs to be read alongside good translations of Homer...and given to anyone who enthuses a bit much about the film 'Troy'.
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