{"product_id":"9780674021433-power-of-thetis-sel-essays","title":"The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSlatkin’s influential book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, showing how our awareness of alternative myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis’s place in the Epic’s thematic structure. This edition also includes six additional essays, which cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic.\u003cbr\u003eLaura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. The six additional essays included in this volume—some of them classics, some never before published—cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40868500668513,"sku":"9780674021433","price":13.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28654672.jpg?v=1736345511","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674021433-power-of-thetis-sel-essays","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}