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The rape of Troy : evolution, violence, and the world of Homer
Autor: Gottschall, Jonathan
Rok: 2008.
ISBN: 9780521870382
ISBN: 9780521690478
OKCZID: 110096479
Vydání: 1st pub.
Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
GOTTSCHALL, Jonathan. The rape of Troy: evolution, violence, and the world of Homer. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 223 s. ISBN 978-0-521-69047-8.
Hodnocení:
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Anotace
Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology, attributing its intensity to a shortage of available young women. The warrior practice of taking enemy women as slaves and concubines meant that women were concentrated in the households of powerful men. In turn, this shortage drove men to compete fiercely over women: almost all the main conflicts of the Iliad and Odyssey can be traced back to disputes over women. The Rape of Troy integrates biological and humanistic understanding - biological theory is used to explore the ultimate sources of pitched Homeric conflict, and Homeric society is the subject of a bio-anthropological case study of why men fight.