The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Politics to Poetics
Part I: Frameworks and Paradigms
1. The Grammar of Reception
2. Consensus and Kosmos: Speech and the Social World in an Indo- European Perspective
3. Achilles and the Crisis of the Exception
4. Social Order and Poetic Order: Agamemnon, Thersites, and the Cata logue of Ships
Part II: The Iliad's Political Communities
5. In Search of Epainos: Collective Decision Making among the Achaeans
6. A Consensus of Fools: The Trojans' Exceptional Epainos
7. The View from Olympus: Divine Politics and Metapoetics
Part III: Resolutions
8. The Return to Normalcy and the Iliad's "Boundless People"
9. The Politics of Reception: Collective Response and Iliadic Audiences within and beyond the Text
Afterword: Epainos and the Odyssey
Notes
Bibliography
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