Homer's characters are often very far from an unreflecting struggle
for status at others' expense. Rather than being a 'zero-sum game',
their negotiations can be of an impressive delicacy, designed to
protect the 'face' of the other. Gifts and visible deference are
important measures of honour, but characters also care about what
others really feel. This sensitive study reveals that at the
beginnings of (surviving) Greek literature Homer's audience is
expected to appreciate psychology and self-control of a very high
order. Literary analysts, historians, anthropologists and indeed
archaeologists will have much to learn here about the general level
of sophistication of the historic and prehistoric societies which
generated such deeply civilized poetry.
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