Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions
have probed HomerOs language beyond the study of the IliadOs first
word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a dozen words for anger. Fighting
Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic
analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of
two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet
Calchas. Walsh argues that kotos and kholos locate two focal points
for the study of aggression in Homeric poetry, the first presenting
HomerOs terms for feud and the second providing the native terms that
designates the martial violence highlighted by the Homeric tradition.
After focusing on these two terms as used in the Iliad and the
Odyssey, Walsh concludes by addressing some post-Homeric and
comparative implications of Homeric anger.
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ISBN
9780739155004
Publisert
2015
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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