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Destiny of Men and Game of the Gods. Readings of the Iliad: texts collected, edited, and introduced by Xavier Gheerbrant.
ROUSSEAU Philippe, GHEERBRANT Xavier.

Destiny of Men and Game of the Gods. Readings of the Iliad: texts collected, edited, and introduced by Xavier Gheerbrant.

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€34,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 26072
Format 16 x 24
Détails 511 p., paperback.
Publication Lille, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782757437209
Philippe Rousseau proposes an interpretation of the Iliad based on the analysis of the logic immanent in the construction of the plot and responding to the demand for deciphering the meaning formulated by the bard in the fifth verse of the poem. Believing they are working towards their own objectives, the human and divine actors in the drama act according to a plan drawn up by Zeus, Son of Cronus and Father of gods and men, whose dialectical economy and deceptive games escape them. The god turns the anger of Achilles and the defeat of the Achaeans into a means of the loss of Troy. The bard thus makes the crisis recounted in the poem the decisive moment in which the outcome of the entire war and the end of the age of heroes are played out. Throughout the chapters, Philippe Rousseau guides the reader in the analysis of this narrative and shows how the Iliad absorbs and surpasses in its monumental construction the whole epic tradition of the Trojan cycle.
Philippe Rousseau proposes an interpretation of the Iliad based on the analysis of the logic immanent in the construction of the plot and responding to the demand for deciphering the meaning formulated by the bard in the fifth verse of the poem. Believing they are working towards their own objectives, the human and divine actors in the drama act according to a plan drawn up by Zeus, Son of Cronus and Father of gods and men, whose dialectical economy and deceptive games escape them. The god turns the anger of Achilles and the defeat of the Achaeans into a means of the loss of Troy. The bard thus makes the crisis recounted in the poem the decisive moment in which the outcome of the entire war and the end of the age of heroes are played out. Throughout the chapters, Philippe Rousseau guides the reader in the analysis of this narrative and shows how the Iliad absorbs and surpasses in its monumental construction the whole epic tradition of the Trojan cycle.