{"product_id":"9781421408279","title":"The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Consent \u003c\/i\u003ebreaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e’s depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem’s three political communities—Achaeans, Trojans, and Olympian gods—engage in the process of collective decision making. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese scenes reflect an awareness of the negotiation involved in reconciling rival versions of the \u003ci\u003eIliad \u003c\/i\u003eover centuries. They also point beyond the\u003ci\u003e Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e’s world of gods and heroes to the here-and-now of the poem’s performance and reception, in which the consensus over the shape and meaning of the Iliadic tradition is continuously evolving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElmer synthesizes ideas and methods from literary and political theory, classical philology, anthropology, and folklore studies to construct an alternative to conventional understandings of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e’s politics. \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Consent \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121941168368,"sku":"9781421408279","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781421408279_p0.jpg?v=1763737925","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421408279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}