This book presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in the Iliad, with reference to the wider Homeric society.

“Anhalt’s contribution is building an overarching narrative of how the Greeks engaged problems of anger—problems that continue to provoke.”—Choice Mil

Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, Richard Holway exposes sacrificial childrearing practices at the root of competitive, glory-se

This book focuses on oath-making narratives in the Iliad, through which it articulates a theory of ritualized violence.

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a