Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: compensation and heroic identity 1. Ransom and revenge: poetics and politics of compensation 2. Agamemnon and Chryses: between king and father 3. The quarrel: men who would be king 4. The embassy to Achilleus: in the name of the father 5. Achilleus and Priam: between king and father 6. Unlimited poine: poetry as practice Appendices Notes Abbreviations References Index of Homeric passages General index.
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