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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society Oath-making Rituals and Narritives in the Iliad

Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society Oath-making Rituals and Narritives in the Iliad
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521855297
  • ISBN: 0521855292
  • Publication Date: 2005
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Kitts, Margo

SUMMARY

The author focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualised violence. She analyses ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East.Kitts, Margo is the author of 'Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society Oath-making Rituals and Narritives in the Iliad', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521855297 and ISBN 0521855292.

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