The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey

Loney has written an important book that examines tisis (revenge) in the Odyssey demonstrating how this theme shapes and is shaped by the narrative.... Loney's book will no doubt become a work of reference in future discussions not only of the theme of revenge but also of the ethics and ideology of the Odyssey. The author is to be congratulated for providing the field with such an important study.

Autorentext
Alexander C. Loney is Associate Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in Classics and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry. He is co-editor (with Stephen Scully) of the Oxford Handbook of Hesiod.

Klappentext
The first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey, this book provides a careful analysis of the several revenge plots in the Odyssey above all, of Odysseus' revenge on the suitors. It argues that Odysseus is an ambivalent hero and that revenge is an unstable organizing principle.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Archaic Context of Vengeance
2 Vengeance in the Odyssey: Tisis As Narrative
3 Three Narratives of Divine Vengeance
4 Odysseus' Terrifying Revenge
5 The Multiple Meanings of Odysseus' Triumphs
6 The End of the Odyssey
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

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