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Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire

Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire

In Blemished Kings, Andrea Kouklanakis looks to Irish satire as she interprets the language of the suitors in the Odyssey-their fighting words-as Homeric expressions of reproach and critique against unsuitable kings, and provides evidence for the concept that blame poetry can physically blemish, hence disqualify, rulers.

Andrea Kouklanakis

  • Harvard University Press
  • 9780674278486
  • 112 pages
  • €18.95
  • Paperback
  • United States
  • Classic fiction (pre c 1945)