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Auteur(s) : Petropoulos, J. C. B.
Titre(s) : Kleos in a minor key [Texte imprimé] : the Homeric education of a little prince / J. C. B. Petropoulos
Publication : Washington (D.C.) : Center for Hellenic Studies ; Cambridge (Mass.) : Distributed
by Harvard university press, 2011
Description matérielle : xiv, 171 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Hellenic studies ; 45
Lien à la collection : Hellenic studies (Washington, D.C.)
Comprend : Kleos and oral history ; Kleos and oral news ; Kleos and social identity ; The little
prince's voyage in a borrowed ship ; Of beards and boar hunts, or, coming of age
in the Odyssey ; The end of the telemachy: the culmination of extinction?
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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'. In the Odyssey,
'glory' may be ascribed to a hero or even a heroine for far more reasons than in the
Iliad. Either way, kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrativeûprincipally 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 finds himself in. Kleos
is the yardstick by which his psychological change, nowadays acknowledged by most
specialists, 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. --Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Télémaque (mythologie grecque)
Homère. Odyssée
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674055926 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674055926 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
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