Achilles

ISBN-13: 9781138677012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 152 str.

Marta Gonzalez

Opis

Achilles presents the episodes in the life of this hero in chronological order, based primarily on the Greek sources. This study also employs the hero Achilles to reflect on various issues: what it meant to become a man in ancient Greece, what a hero’s aretê consisted of, and how they developed their ideas about the afterlife and hero cult.

O autorze

Marta González González is Profesora Titular of Greek Philology at Málaga University (Spain). Her main research interests are Greek literature (particularly tragedy), Greek religion, and epigraphy. She is the author of a monograph on the Greek epigrammatist Nossis of Locri (2006) and of a co-authored book, with Ana Iriarte, Entre Ares y Afrodita. Violencia del erotismo y erótica de la violencia en la Grecia Antigua (2008, reprinted, 2010). Her most recent publications include articles on Greek religious vocabulary of funerary inscriptions.