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Author:

Petropoulos, J. C. B.

Title:

Kleos in a minor key : the Homeric education of a little prince / J.C.B. Petropoulos.

Publisher:

Center for Hellenic Studies ;

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiv, 171 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Homer.--Odyssey.
Homer--Telemachus.--Telemachus.
Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
Telemachus (Greek mythology) in literature.
Princes in literature.
Glory in literature.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Education of princes in literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Kleos and oral history -- Kleos and oral news -- Kleos and social identity -- The little prince's voyage in a borrowed ship -- Of beards and boar hunts, or, coming of age in the Odyssey -- The end of the telemachy: the culmination of extinction?

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 45

ISBN:

0674055926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780674055926 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)587209823

LCCN:

2010045796

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)