"The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not……" — Cedric H Whitman
"The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere."
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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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To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the…
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Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but…
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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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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
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