Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer

by Andrew Porter

Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to return home and die a pathetic death at his wife's hands. Yet while Agamemnon's story exerts an outsize influence--rivalled by few epic personalities--on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and Odyssey, scholars have not adequately considered his full portrait. What was Agamemnon like as a character for Homer and his audience? More fundamentally, how should we approach the topic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984455
• ISBN13: 9780674984455
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"