The rape of Troy : evolution, violence, and the world of Homer

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The rape of Troy : evolution, violence, and the world of Homer

Jonathan Gottschall

Cambridge University Press, 2008

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 198-217

Includes index

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内容説明

Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology, attributing its intensity to a shortage of available young women. The warrior practice of taking enemy women as slaves and concubines meant that women were concentrated in the households of powerful men. In turn, this shortage drove men to compete fiercely over women: almost all the main conflicts of the Iliad and Odyssey can be traced back to disputes over women. The Rape of Troy integrates biological and humanistic understanding - biological theory is used to explore the ultimate sources of pitched Homeric conflict, and Homeric society is the subject of a bio-anthropological case study of why men fight.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Rebuilding Homer's Greece
  • 2. A short ethnography of Homeric society
  • 3. Why do men fight? The evolutionary biology and anthropology of male violence
  • 4. What launched the 1,186 ships?
  • 5. Status warriors
  • 6. Homeric women: re-imagining the fitness landscape
  • 7. Homer's missing daughters
  • 8. The prisoner's dilemma and the mystery of tragedy
  • Conclusion: between lions and men.

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