{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673","title":"The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey","description":"This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. The principal revenge plot of the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e --Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors -- is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. But is Odysseus' triumph over the suitors as univocally celebratory as is often assumed? Does the poem contain and even suggest other, darker interpretations of Odysseus' greatest achievement? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a careful analysis of several other revenge plots in the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e -- those of Orestes, Poseidon, Zeus, and the suitors' relatives. It shows how these revenge stories color one another with allusions (explicit and implicit) that connect them and invite audiences to interpret them in\u003cbr\u003elight of one another. These stories -- especially Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors -- inevitably turn out to have multiple meanings. One plot of revenge slips into another as the offender in one story becomes a victim to be avenged in the next. As a result, Odysseus turns out to be a much more\u003cbr\u003eambivalent hero than has been commonly accepted. And in the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey's\u003c\/em\u003e portrayal, revenge is an unstable foundation for a community. Revenge also ends up being a tenuous narrative structure for an epic poem, as a natural end to cycles of vengeance proves elusive. This book offers a radical new\u003cbr\u003ereading of the seemingly happy ending of the poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander C. Loney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190909673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexander C. Loney\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in Classics and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry.\u003cbr\u003eHe is co-editor (with Stephen Scully) of the \u003cem\u003eOxford Handbook of Hesiod\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929226559603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_61f2f059-e0be-4d0b-82dc-970962a3f9ca.jpg?v=1647612057","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}