Introduzione a Omero

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  Some have argued heroes in Homer are from a time before people were "intelligent" in the sense we mean today.

  This book comes from a more traditional literary perspective and manages to give us an idea of what can you really infer about what ancient Greek civilization from Homer's writings. F ... (continue)

  Some have argued heroes in Homer are from a time before people were "intelligent" in the sense we mean today.

  This book comes from a more traditional literary perspective and manages to give us an idea of what can you really infer about what ancient Greek civilization from Homer's writings. For instance: individual responsibility versus destiny, gods' ethics versus humans, the transition between a tribe peer group organization to a hierarchical, aristocratic organization.

  It also helps us who have little or no understanding of ancient literature and history to understand who is talking about whom: a person or persons from the beginning of what we call ancient Greek civilization talking about a much earlier stage when Crete's and Mycenae's king-centered hierarchies had collapsed back into tribe-like peer-to-peer allegiances. Or so I think.

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• Libri Italiani
• Others 215 Pages
• Edition: 10
• ISBN-10: 880611851X
• ISBN-13: 9788806118518
• Publisher: Einaudi
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1990
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback and Paperback

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