Gottschall, Jonathan: The Rape of Troy

Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology, attributing its intensity to a shortage of available young women. The warrior practice of taking enemy women as slaves and concubines meant that women were concentrated in the households of powerful men. In turn, this shortage drove men to compete fiercely over women: almost all the main conflicts of the Iliad and Odyssey can be traced back to disputes over women. The Rape of Troy integrates biological and humanistic understanding - biological theory is used to explore the ultimate sources of pitched Homeric conflict, and Homeric society is the subject of a bio-anthropological case study of why men fight. XII,223 Seiten, broschiert (Cambridge University Press 2008) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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