Article: Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in The Iliad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: STUDENTS' ODYSSEY; After three years, Homeric ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 15, 2004 ;     593 words ... ... in the Boston College High School Homeric Society's 40th annual Actus, a Jesuit tradition ... Collins said. Past members of the Homeric Society joined current students from other ... s centennial. The students in the Homeric Society have studied Greek for three years ...

Article: Books received.
Philological Quarterly;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of Agency in Ancient Greek. Cambridge U. Press, 2006. Pp. x + 288. $85.00. Kitts, Margo. Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society. Cambridge U. Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 244. $75.00. Nagle, D. Brendan. The Household as the ...

Article: The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of ...
Style;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... evolutionary anthropology of conflict in Homeric society" (3). In his account, "Homeric society" "refers not so much to Homer's ... Gottschall calls the "Late Dark Age" of Homeric society (11), the period of time following ...

Article: They Take Their Sports Off the Wall, or Not at All
The Washington Post;  April 9, 1992 ;     645 words ... ... of the school's core curriculum since 1937. About 25 Homeric Society members can be seen running backwards up hills on Friday ... tutor (as professors are called) who joined the brutal Homeric Society workouts to improve his basketball game. "At St. John ...

Article: Veblen, Camp, and the Industrial Organization of Agriculture.
Journal of Economic Issues;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... with Veblen) Camp proposed that he, Rolfe, and Veblen study Homeric society together. Quoting Rolfe from Dorfman's biography of Veblen ... 197). I do not know the full extent to which the study of Homeric society by Camp, Ro

Article: Why they crusaded.(The First Crusade: A New History)(book)(Book ...
Quadrant;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... became a penitential act, and through the ethic of sanctified violence, believers could earn themselves a place in heaven ... Christian world. In promulgating the notion of sanctified violence, knights could be involved in batt

Article: Sense and nonsense; Richard Posner.(Book Review)
The Economist (US);  June 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... footnotes, on a bewildering array of topics, from the structure of court systems to sex, literature, politics, Hegel, Homeric society and medieval Iceland. He is a hero to America's political conservatives, and a marvel to intellectual fans and opponents ...