Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Record 20 of 28
Previous Record Next Record
Print Material
Author Gottschall, Jonathan.

Title The rape of Troy : evolution, violence, and the world of Homer / Jonathan Gottschall.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  883.01 H752iDg 2008    ---  Available
Description xii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents Rebuilding Homer's Greece -- A short ethnography of Homeric society -- Why do men fight? : the evolutionary biology and anthropology of male violence -- What launched the 1,186 ships? -- Status warriors -- Homeric women : re-imagining the fitness landscape -- Homer's missing daughters -- The prisoner's dilemma and the mystery of tragedy -- Conclusion : between lions and men -- Appendix. Dating Homeric society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-217) and index.
Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
War in literature.
Human evolution in literature.
Sex distribution (Demography) -- History.
Civilization, Homeric.
Trojan War -- Literature and the war.
ISBN 0521690471 (pbk.)
9780521870382 (hardback)
0521870380
9780521690478 (pbk.)
Standard No. NLGGC 308098811
NZ1 12125063
AU@ 000043017020

 
    
Available items only