{"product_id":"the-power-of-thetis-and-selected-essays-9780674021433","title":"The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laura M. Slatkin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient and Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. The six additional essays included in this volume--some of them classics, some never before published--cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47584030130327,"sku":"9780674021433","price":2256.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674021433.webp?v=1774953573","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-power-of-thetis-and-selected-essays-9780674021433","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}