Desire in the Iliad: The Force That Moves the Epic and Its Audience

ISBN-13: 9780192866516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Departm Assistant Professor Rachel H. (Assistant Professor

Recenzje

Desire in the Iliad. The Force that Moves the Epic and its Audience 'clarifies how the Iliad is fundamentally an epic about human feelings and human relationships rather than spectacular violence'

O autorze

Rachel H. Lesser earned a BA in Classics from Columbia University and a second BA in Classics and English from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She went on to earn her MA in Classics and PhD in Classics, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published articles on Homer and Sappho, with a focus on women, desire, and intertextuality. She has taught in the Department of Classics at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania since 2016.