The World of Homer and Hesiod

A Companion to Archaic Greece

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-99

  Ulf, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hesiod's epics Theogony justifying reign of Zeus and Olympian gods; Homer's political communities not self contained and completely autonomous entities; Principle of reciprocity principle essential to functioning of Homeric societies as a whole, not only of their elites; Reciprocity; Socio political units establishment of person's status by means of socio economic and socio political criteria; Subsistence economy and trade simple agricultural economy prevailing in Homer; The Iliad societies at war; The Odyssey a society in danger; World of Homer and Hesiod starting with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952399427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308761.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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