Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Walsh argues that kotos and...
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Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Walsh argues that kotos and kholos locate two focal points for the study of aggression in Homeric poetry, the first presenting Homer's terms for feud and the second providing the native terms that designates the martial violence highlighted by the Homeric tradition
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Homeric Anger; Part I: Feuding Words; Chapter One: The Prophet Defines; Chapter Two: Forms and Formulae; Chapter Three: Kóτoς and Social Status; Chapter Four: Anger's History: Kóτoς and Etymology; Chapter Five: Anger's Aggression: The Wrath of Feud; Part II: Fighting Words; Chapter Six: Helen's Cure and the End of Anger; Chapter Seven: The Beginning of Xóλoς; Chapter Eight: Fighting Words; Chapter Nine: Fighting Deeds; Chapter Ten: The Embassy, Xóλoς, and the Iliad's Genre
Chapter Eleven: The Culture and Poetics of Xóλoς in the IliadChapter Twelve: Conclusions and a Comparison; Appendix One: Forms of Kóτoς Discussed in Part I; Appendix Two: Forms of Xóλoς Discussed in Part II; Bibliography; General Index; Citation Index; About the Author