The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (Volume 28) (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) by Dean Hammer (PDF)

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Wily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer’s Iliad, long admired and studied as one of the foremost epic poems of the ancient world. In The Iliad as Politics, Dean Hammer revisits this epic with a new perspective.In this first full-length treatment of the Iliad as a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer’s epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on political ethics. Hammer redefines political thought as the activity of addressing issues of collective identity and organization. Using this understanding of politics, he discusses how the characters in the Iliad, through their larger-than-life actions and interactions, embody community issues of authority, conflict, judgment, and the interrelationship between personal and collective identity. The characters’ many quarrels, laments, reconciliations, and vows of loyalty and friendship all critically model the principles and controversies of underlying Greek political ethics of communal responsibility and relationship.Much of modern Western political thought focuses on classical Greek discussions of political philosophy. Hammer demonstrates that the Iliad constitutes another such ancient Greek political discussion.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Dean Hammer is the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins and The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought.

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⭐The book treats the Iliad as a work of normative political theory. If this sounds attractive to you, you will almost certainly appreciate this book. Hammer does a fine job of teasing out a coherent and extremely interesting theory from this great poem. And if you are interested in the Iliad but have never thought of it as a work of political theory, you are likely to find very interesting new insights here. The book is an academic book, but quite accessible to “the intelligent general reader” who happens to have an interest in these questions.

⭐As a devote of “The Iliad” I found this work extremely interesting. It provides an excellent description of how what some might call our “Western democratic traditions” got their start in ancient Greece and how these ideas and traditions are shown in “The Iliad.” This should be a must read for anyone interested in ancient Greece, and for anyone interested in the foundations of democracy and/or modern political systems. One of the most thought provoking books I have read in a long time.

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