{"product_id":"the-power-of-thetis-and-selected-essays-9780674021433","title":"The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays","description":"Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. The six additional essays included in this volume--some of them classics, some never before published--cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlatkin, Laura M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Laura Slatkin is Professor of Classical Studies at New York University's Gallatin School and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491875229970,"sku":"9780674021433","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa819efa-d76b-4fc8-b744-19d5dc7e3b85.jpg?v=1730559920","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-power-of-thetis-and-selected-essays-9780674021433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}