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Fighting Words and Feuding Words
Anger and the Homeric Poems
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2005
Summary
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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Edition
1/2005
Copyright Year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2230-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5500-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
302
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction: Homeric Anger No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter One: The Prophet Defines No access
Chapter Two: Forms and Formulae No access
Chapter Three: Kóτoς and Social Status No access
Chapter Four: Anger's History: Kóτoς and Etymology No access
Chapter Five: Anger's Aggression: The Wrath of Feud No access
Chapter Six: Helen's Cure and the End of Anger No access
Chapter Seven: The Beginning of Xóλoς No access
Chapter Eight: Fighting Words No access
Chapter Nine: Fighting Deeds No access
Chapter Ten: The Embassy, Xóλoς, and the Iliad's Genre No access
Chapter Eleven: The Culture and Poetics of Xóλoς in the Iliad No access
Chapter Twelve: Conclusions and a Comparison No access
Appendix One: Forms of Kóτoς Discussed in Part I No access Pages 247 - 248
Appendix Two: Forms of Xóλoς Discussed in Part II No access Pages 249 - 258
