The swineherd and the bow
Social classes in literature
Homer
Epic poetry, history and criticism
Greek Epic poetry
Literature and society
Political and social views
In literature
History and criticism
History
The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to …
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