Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior-kingRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 228 sidor This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and athlete into a supreme image of political power. The special "heroic warrior's belts" (zosteres) worn by Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Nestor served as unimpeachable visual emblems of their exalted positions of rank. The feminine counterpart, or zone, presents the woman as superior in the competitive arena of love. Bennett shows that the belted hero represented an ideology attractive to wealthy landowners, their oikoi, and inter-family connections. He suggests that the communal spirit of the hoplite phalanx attempted to appropriate the belted hero ideal, even while undermining its ethos of personal honor. Bennett also makes several important iconographic interpretations that provide fundamentally new insights into early Greek oral epic compositional techniques, conceptions of time, and cosmological structure. Belted Heroes and Bound Women will be of interest to scholars and students of early Greek art, history, or literature. |
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... mortal and unaging husband , Odysseus chooses to reenter the timezone of mortality . The very fact that Calypso can offer Odysseus immortality is a clue that she lives in an untimed and deathless world . With Circe and Calypso safely ...
... mortal and unaging husband , Odysseus chooses to reenter the timezone of mortality . The very fact that Calypso can offer Odysseus immortality is a clue that she lives in an untimed and deathless world . With Circe and Calypso safely ...
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... mortal world.139 Since he has been ab- ducted 140 by storm winds outside the sun's circuit , he is in a real sense " out of sight " and " out of knowledge . " Out of sight is indeed out of mind . Odysseus is disconnected from Helios ...
... mortal world.139 Since he has been ab- ducted 140 by storm winds outside the sun's circuit , he is in a real sense " out of sight " and " out of knowledge . " Out of sight is indeed out of mind . Odysseus is disconnected from Helios ...
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... mortal one regulated by Helios neither obeys the same rules nor shares the same structure ; neither do its inhabitants.151 Odysseus simply de- 146 Odysseus's tears are compared to those of a woman weeping over " the body of her dead ...
... mortal one regulated by Helios neither obeys the same rules nor shares the same structure ; neither do its inhabitants.151 Odysseus simply de- 146 Odysseus's tears are compared to those of a woman weeping over " the body of her dead ...
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The Harvard Belt the Harvard Bow Fibula | 31 |
Phrygianlonian Belts and BeltDedications at Olympia | 43 |
References to Belts in the Iliad and the Odyssey | 61 |
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Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior-king Michael J. Bennett Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1997 |
Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior-king Michael J. Bennett Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1997 |
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Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon Aias Ancient Aphrodite Archaic armor athletic banded zone battle battlefield bell-corslet Bellerophontes belt dedications belted hero bird scene Bow Fibula bronze Calypso chariot Chios Circe Circe's corslet decoration disk Early Greek early seventh centuries eighth century B.C. epithet Eumaios female feminine fibula fighting front G. E. R. Lloyd Geometric gift Greece Harvard belt Hector Helios Hera Hera's Herakles heroic warrior's belt Homeric epic honor hoplite horse and bird Ibid ideology Iliad incised Ionian king kleos lions Lorimer Menelaos Menelaos's mitre mortal motifs Museum Nagy narrative Nestor Odysseus Odysseus's oikos Okeanos Olympia oral pair parallel paratactic paratactic ring Phaiakians poem poet poetic poetry representational zones schema seventh century B.C. sexual attraction similes song spear structure suggests supra symbolic telamon thematic theme Thersites thorex tradition Trojans Urartian Urartu Vermeule visual waist warrior wear woman woman's belt worn Zeus zoma zoster zoster-zoma
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