Cedric H Whitman Quotes

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• In earlier antiquity, no doubt, the multiple and not necessarily consistent aspects of the Greek character found little difficulty in embracing spiritually, if not analytically,…
• 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…
• The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.
• 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' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction.
• To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus, Achilles will prove…
• Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to identify himself with…
• The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict between…
• Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because of its almost inhuman austeriy,…
• The fact that Achilles is the one to take the initiative (in the Chryse affair) is in itself significant: he feels responsiblity and concern for…

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