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New Heroes in Antiquity : From Achilles to Antinoos.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Revealing Antiquity SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (138 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054080
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Heroes in AntiquityDDC classification:
  • 292.2/11
LOC classification:
  • BL785
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Poetic Heroes -- 2. Local Heroes -- 3. Warriors and Patriots -- 4. Athletes, Poets, Philosophers -- 5. Private Heroes -- 6. Greek Heroes in a Roman World -- 7. Antinoos -- 8. Heroes and Saints -- Appendix: Living Heroes? -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly wide-ranging analysis, Jones starts from literary heroes such as Achilles and moves to the historical record of those exceptional men and women who were worshiped after death.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Poetic Heroes -- 2. Local Heroes -- 3. Warriors and Patriots -- 4. Athletes, Poets, Philosophers -- 5. Private Heroes -- 6. Greek Heroes in a Roman World -- 7. Antinoos -- 8. Heroes and Saints -- Appendix: Living Heroes? -- Notes -- Index.

Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly wide-ranging analysis, Jones starts from literary heroes such as Achilles and moves to the historical record of those exceptional men and women who were worshiped after death.

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