{"product_id":"the-iliad-as-politics-the-performance-of-political-thought-hardback-9780806133669","title":"The Iliad As Politics; The Performance of Political Thought (Hardback) 9780806133669","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Iliad As Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Performance of Political Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDean Hammer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806133669\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer's \u003cem\u003eIliad, \u003c\/em\u003elong admired and studied as one of the foremost epic poems of the ancient world. In \u003cem\u003eThe Iliad as Politics,\u003c\/em\u003e Dean Hammer revisits this epic with a new perspective.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this first full-length treatment of the \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003eas a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer's epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on political ethics. Hammer redefines political thought as the activity of addressing issues of collective identity and organization. Using this understanding of politics, he discusses how the characters in the \u003cem\u003eIliad, \u003c\/em\u003ethrough their larger-than-life actions and interactions, embody community issues of authority, conflict, judgment, and the interrelationship between personal and collective identity. The characters' many quarrels, laments, reconciliations, and vows of loyalty and friendship all critically model the principles and controversies of underlying Greek political ethics of communal responsibility and relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of modern Western political thought focuses on classical Greek discussions of political philosophy. Hammer demonstrates that the \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003econstitutes another such ancient Greek political discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739368976664,"sku":"9780806133669","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-iliad-as-politics-the-performance-of-political-thought-hardback-9780806133669","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}