To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the temporal process; yet such is Achilles' deathly earnest, so absolute is his fire that this is precisely what he threatens… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because of its almost inhuman… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the "Odyssey", not the "Iliad"… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
In earlier antiquity, no doubt, the multiple and not necessarily consistent aspects of the Greek character found little difficulty in embracing spiritually, if not… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to identify himself… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus, Achilles will… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
The fact that Achilles is the one to take the initiative (in the Chryse affair) is in itself significant: he feels responsiblity and concern… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the temporal process; yet such… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus meets the ghost of Achilles in Hades. They are profoundly courteous to each other.… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
