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Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King

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Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King - Bennett, Michael J
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A study which uses archaeological, textual and art historical evidence to argue that metal and leather belts inspired Ionian epic singers from the first half of the 8th century BC to the mid 7th century BC to incoporate specific types of belts into their songs, and that they became essential poetic images used to promote an ideology espoused by ...

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Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King 1997, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780822630616

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