Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-139) and index.
Contents:
Law and story -- Law in the Odyssey : the story of motion -- From the Iliad to the Odyssey : toward the juridification of anger -- The Metis syndrome : women and law in the Odyssey.
Summary:
"This book offers an innovative reading of two key texts in Western culture, Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, that have been curiously overlooked in the law and literature canon. The book introduces the Homeric epics as an essential link in a chain of stories about the establishment of the law, and delineates the transition from myth to tragedy as one closely linked to the emergence of an institutionalized legal system"--Back cover.
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