Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey: Hobbes writes Homer
In: Routledge studies in social and political thought 141
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1 The Hobbesian Homer: Between Amusement and Propaganda; 1.1 Hobbes's Thucydides and Hobbes's Homer: Different Times and Contexts. And Different Aims Too?; 1.2 "Nothing Else To Do"?; 1.3 The Hobbesian Translations of the Homeric Poems; 1.4 Hobbes and the Classical World: Language, Culture and Education; 1.5 To the Reader, Concerning the Virtues of an Heroic Poem. A Third Piece of Evidence?; 2 The Hobbesian Translations of the Homeric Poems: A Reading from the Political Perspective. Analogies and Differences