Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince (Hellenic Studies) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Kleos in a Minor Key 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'. This book presents a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in.
Full description- Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Published: 06 June 2011
- Format: Paperback 186 pages
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- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780674055926 ISBN 10: 0674055926
- Sales rank: 602,101
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Full description for Kleos in a Minor Key
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'. Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative - principally 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 find himself in. Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change 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.
