The wooden horse
Subtitle: the liberation of the western mind from Odysseus to Socrates
By: Keld Zeruneith ; translated from the Danish by Russell L. Dees ; editedy by W. Glyn Jones
Publisher: Overlook Duckworth
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9781585678181
Subjects: Consciousness; Greek literature -- History and criticism; Mythology, Greek; Philosophy, Ancient; Civilization, Homeric; Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C
Work titles: Træhesten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-596) and index
Table of contents: value: Pt. 1. Odysseus. The wooden horse: the myth of discursivity; value: The Homeric project; value: Dual religiosity; value: Athene and the apple of discord: on Eros, Eris and Metis; value: The Telemachy; value: Odysseus; value: The wanderings; value: The trials of homecoming; value: The Homeric utopia; value: pt. 2. Socrates. The subjective and reflective breakthrough in poetry and philosophy; value: Hesiod as transitional poet; value: The lyrical sense of self; value: Presocratic thought; value: The life and form of tragedy; value: Aeschylus; value: Sophocles; value: Euripides; value: Socrates