Resumen de Who is counting? Appreciating the peer, despising the other. Social relationships in homeric communities from an alterity study
In this work, we aim to study different scenes within the Iliad and the Odyssey in order to understand what kind of relationships appear governing connections with the “contemporaneous others”: those with whom the heroes share time and community, whether one understands this as a small-scale local group or in a broader sense as the whole group of Achaeans. We also question what sorts of formerly unrecognized groups can constitute “Others” in Homer. First, analyzing how members of the aristocratic warrior group related to each other. Secondly, focusing on the relationship between the aristocratic social group and the commoners, known as κακοί. Throughout a detailed analysis of different episodes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, we show how the relationships among characters reveal a hierarchical and asymmetrical reality perfectly recognized by us, similar of that of many places in the world today.
