{"product_id":"sons-of-the-gods-children-of-the-earth-ideology-and-literary-form-in-ancient-greece","title":"Sons of the Gods, Children of the Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence—beliefs about descent from gods or heroes—is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, Pindar's \u003ci\u003eTenth Pythian Ode\u003c\/i\u003e, Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e, Sophokles' \u003ci\u003ePhiloktetes\u003c\/i\u003e, and Plato's \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRose rejects the view of art as a mere reflection of social and political reality—a view that is characteristic not only of most Marxist but of most historically oriented treatments of classical literature. He applies instead a Marxian hermeneutic derived from the work of the Frankfurt School and Fredric Jameson. His readings focus on illuminating a politics of form within the text, while responding to historically specific social, political, and economic realities. Each work, he asserts, both reflects contemporary conflicts over wealth, power, and gender roles and constitutes an attempt to transcend the status quo by projecting an ideal community. Following Marx, Rose maintains that critical engagement with the limitations of the utopian dreams of the past is the only means to the realization of freedom in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassicists and their students, literary theorists, philosophers, comparatists, and Marxist critics will find \u003ci\u003eSons of the Gods, Children of Earth\u003c\/i\u003echallenging reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond Hand. Excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hellenic Bookservice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56144243392891,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/6862\/0411\/files\/s-l960_1caff0e5-d7fc-4b67-88bc-337496e335da.jpg?v=1773073036","url":"https:\/\/hellenic-books.com\/products\/sons-of-the-gods-children-of-the-earth-ideology-and-literary-form-in-ancient-greece","provider":"Hellenic Bookservice","version":"1.0","type":"link"}