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The typology of scenes involving apoina, or ransom, and poine, or revenge, from the beginning to the end of the Iliad, is the basis of this anthropology of compensation in Homer. The author places the study in the wider context of agonistic exchange.Wilson, Donna is the author of 'Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad' with ISBN 9780521806602 and ISBN 0521806607.
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