It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the "Odyssey", not the "Iliad" which Livius Andronicus introduced to Rome as its first "cultural" school book. — 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
