New Heroes in Antiquity : From Achilles to Antinoos / Christopher P. Jones.
Jones, Christopher P., author.
2010
BL785 .J66 2010eb
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Title New Heroes in Antiquity : From Achilles to Antinoos / Christopher P. Jones.
Author Jones, Christopher P., author.
ISBN 9780674054080
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054080
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (144 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674054080 doi
Call Number BL785 .J66 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 292.2/11
Summary Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly wide-ranging analysis, Christopher Jones starts from literary heroes such as Achilles and moves to the historical record of those exceptional men and women who were worshiped after death. This book, wholly new and beautifully written, rescues the hero from literary metaphor and vividly restores heroism to the reality of ancient life.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
Series Revealing Antiquity , 1052-0422 ; 18
In HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Poetic Heroes
Local Heroes
Warriors and Patriots
Athletes, Poets, Phi los o phers
Private Heroes
Greek Heroes in a Roman World
Antinoos
Heroes and Saints
Appendix: Living Heroes?
Notes
Index

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