Homer's Hero Laura J D Frink

Homer's Hero Laura J D FrinkDraws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence. Offering a new, Plato inspired reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this book traces the divergent consequences of love of honor and love of one's own private life for human excellence, justice, and politics. Analyzing Homer's intricate character portraits, Michelle M. Kundmueller concludes that the poet shows

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in a restricted space

from the uncertainties of a changing world to the heartaches borne of betrayal and love unfulfilled

but to ultimately judge ourselves

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and intense politicization

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A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S

this book decisively intervenes in impasses around questions of identity that continue to confound contemporary discourse and politics

Considered the first pan-Africanist work of fiction and among the earliest English novels written by an African author

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and why every aspect of our formulation and establishment of fact is dependent upon it