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The word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey distinctly supposes an oral narrativeprincipally an oral history, a life story or ultimately an oral tradition. A hero's kleos defines him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society in which Telemachos finds himself.

Kleos in a Minor Key

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      Publisher Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
      Published 6 June 2011
      ISBN-13 9780674055926
      978-0674055926
      ISBN-10 0674055926

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      Book Synopsis
      The word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey distinctly supposes an oral narrativeprincipally an oral history, a life story or ultimately an oral tradition. A hero's kleos defines him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society in which Telemachos finds himself.

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