RT Book
T1 Sons of the gods, children of earth: ideology and literary form in ancient Greece
A1 Rose, Peter W. 1936-
LA Undetermined
PP Ithaca
PB Cornell University Press
YR 1992
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1853333433
AB In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence—beliefs about descent from gods or heroes—is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Sophokles' Philoktetes, and Plato's Republic. Rose rejects the view of art as a mere reflection of social and political reality—a view that is characteristic not only of most Marxist but of most historically oriented treatments of classical literature. He applies instead a Marxian hermeneutic derived from the work of the Frankfurt School and Fredric Jameson. His readings focus on illuminating a politics of form within the text, while responding to historically specific social, political, and economic realities. Each work, he asserts, both reflects contemporary conflicts over wealth, power, and gender roles and constitutes an attempt to transcend the status quo by projecting an ideal community. Following Marx, Rose maintains that critical engagement with the limitations of the utopian dreams of the past is the only means to the realization of freedom in the present. Classicists and their students, literary theorists, philosophers, comparatists, and Marxist critics will find Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth challenging reading
OP 432
CN PA3015.P63
SN 978-1-5017-3769-5
SN 978-1-5017-4257-6
SN 978-1-5017-4258-3
K1 To 1500
K1 Greek literature : History and criticism
K1 Literary Form : History : To 1500
K1 Politics and literature : Greece
K1 Marxist criticism
K1 Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
K1 Littérature grecque - Histoire et critique
K1 Politique et littérature - Grèce
K1 Critique marxiste
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM - Ancient & Classical
K1 Greek literature
K1 Literary Form
K1 Politics and government
K1 Politics and literature
K1 Dictionaries
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 History
K1 Dictionnaires
K1 Greece : Politics and government
K1 Grèce - Politique et gouvernement
K1 Greece