Title: The Iliad
Subtitle: The Male Totem
Description: The author presents a radically novel analysis of the Iliad based on new concepts taken from the natural sciences, especially neuroscience. His "succedaneum theory" attempts to provide a framework within which several issues (behavioral as well as aesthetic) can be dealt with more parsimoniously.
Subjects: Homer, The Iliad, Poetry, Translations, History and criticism, Transmission of texts, History
Places: Troy
People: Homer, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector