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Belted Heroes and Bound Women - The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King (Paperback, New)
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Belted Heroes and Bound Women - The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King (Paperback, New)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a
previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the 'belted hero, ' and
argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological
significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and
athlete into a supreme image of political power. The special
'heroic warrior's belts' (zosteres) worn by Agamemnon, Menelaos,
and Nestor served as unimpeachable visual emblems of their exalted
positions of rank. The feminine counterpart, or zone, presents the
woman as superior in the competitive arena of love. Bennett shows
that the belted hero represented an ideology attractive to wealthy
landowners, their oikoi, and inter-family connections. He suggests
that the communal spirit of the hoplite phalanx attempted to
appropriate the belted hero ideal, even while undermining its ethos
of personal honor. Bennett also makes several important
iconographic interpretations that provide fundamentally new
insights into early Greek oral epic compositional techniques,
conceptions of time, and cosmological structure. Belted Heroes and
Bound Women will be of interest to scholars and students of early
Greek art, history, or literature.
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