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PublisherHarvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

ISBN-100674055926

ISBN-139780674055926

eBay Product ID (ePID)84538564

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Number of Pages186 Pages

Publication NameKleos in a Minor Key : the Homeric Education of a Little Prince

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAncient / Greece, Poetry, Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorJ. C. B. Petropoulos

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama, History

SeriesHellenic Studies Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-045796

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number45

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal883/.01

SynopsisAs scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than "fame" or "glory." Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." When broken down into its twin constituents, "words" and "actions" or "deeds," a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change was appreciated by Homer's audiences. As this book shows through philological and interdisciplinary analysis, Prince Telemachos grows up in the course of the Telemachy and arguably even beyond (in book 24): his education, which is conceived largely as an apprenticeship on land and sea, admits him gradually if unevenly to a full-fledged adult kleos--a kleos that nonetheless necessarily remains minor in comparison to that of his father and other elders., The word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." A hero's kleos defines him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society in which Telemachos finds himself., As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than "fame" or "glory." Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative-principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." When broken down into its twin constituents, "words" and "actions" or "deeds," a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change was appreciated by Homer's audiences. As this book shows through philological and interdisciplinary analysis, Prince Telemachos grows up in the course of the Telemachy and arguably even beyond (in book 24): his education, which is conceived largely as an apprenticeship on land and sea, admits him gradually if unevenly to a full-fledged adult kleos-a kleos that nonetheless necessarily remains minor in comparison to that of his father and other elders.

LC Classification NumberPA4167