The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: January 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780472113910
Subjects: Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; Odyssey; Homer; War; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; History: World; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in; Ancient and Classical; Poetry; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Epic poetry, Greek; Ancient - General; History and criticism; Moral and ethical aspects; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
First sentence: The plot of the Odyssey depends on a single act of its hero: the blinding of the Cyclops.