"Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its……" — Cedric H Whitman
"Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction."
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10 Quotes by Cedric H Whitman
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In earlier antiquity, no doubt, the multiple and not necessarily consistent aspects of the Greek character found little difficulty in…
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It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the…
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The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.
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To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the…
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To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory…
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Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem…
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The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of…
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Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because…
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The fact that Achilles is the one to take the initiative (in the Chryse affair) is in itself significant: he…
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