This study examines primary texts such as the "Iliad" and "Cyropaedia" to set the viewing parameters of Athenian ideology, then considers how heroes like Oedipus and Iphigenia might "look like heroes" to their original audience. This "affective hero", unlike the structuralist hero, reflects the audience's self-image back onto itself and reveals surprising insights into culture.
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This study examines primary texts such as the "Iliad" and "Cyropaedia" to set the viewing parameters of Athenian ideology, then considers how heroes like Oedipus and Iphigenia might "look like heroes" to their original audience. This "affective hero", unlike the structuralist hero, reflects the audience's self-image back onto itself and reveals surprising insights into culture.
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0773457763. Book cover has a white spot that can probably be removed on front cover. A couple of scratches on back cover. Book is inscribed and signed on the half title page; 6 X 1.5 X 9 inches; 545 pages.