Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 The poems and their narrator
- Part 2 The characters
- 5 The Gods in the Homeric epics
- 6 Manhood and heroism
- 7 Gender and Homeric epic
- Part 3 The poet’s craft
- Part 4 Text and context
- Part 5 Homeric receptions
- Dateline
- List of works cited
- Index of passages discussed
- General Index
6 - Manhood and heroism
from Part 2 - The characters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 The poems and their narrator
- Part 2 The characters
- 5 The Gods in the Homeric epics
- 6 Manhood and heroism
- 7 Gender and Homeric epic
- Part 3 The poet’s craft
- Part 4 Text and context
- Part 5 Homeric receptions
- Dateline
- List of works cited
- Index of passages discussed
- General Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Homer , pp. 74 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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