Homer's The IliadHarold Bloom Chelsea House, 2007 - 212 sivua The Iliad, a foundational text in Western literature, focuses on Achilles, a hero consumed with pride who by the end of the poem is overwhelmed with grief over his lost friend. While eventually Achilles takes pity on the father of his most hated enemy, The Iliad remains tragic as so very many have been brutally killed in the Trojan War. Among the topics considered in this updated edition are the roles of Achilles and Helen, the Greeks' rules of behavior, the oral and literary conventions employed by the author, and man's internal and external motivations. Book jacket. |
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Values in Tension | 11 |
The Helen of the Iliad | 33 |
The Importance of Iliad 8 | 57 |
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Achaians Achilles affect Agamemnon Aias aidôs Aithiopis Ajax Akhilleus alkê alkimos anger Aphrodite Apollo appears aristeia Athena battle battlefield beautiful become book 24 Christopher Gill claims conflict contest contrast Crotty cult culture death of Patroklos Demaratos describe Diomedes Dioskouroi discussion distance divine emotional entheos esteem ethical example expressed father feelings fighting gesture glory goddess gods Greek grief guilt heart Hektor Hektor's corpse Helen Hera hero Herodotus heroic Hesiod hexameter Hippomedon Homeric Homeric epic honor human Iliad Iliad 24 important killed language lines Menelaos mortal mounos mourning Nagy narrative Nemesis Nestor nonverbal behavior Odysseus oios pain Paris passage Patroklos's death Peleus performance pity poem poet poetry possession present Priam proxemic psychological reason response ritual sense shame social spear speech story suffering suggests suitors supplication Telemakhos Teukros text to nn Thetis tîmê tradition Trojan War Trojans Troy verbal warriors words Yahweh Zeus