"To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of……" — Cedric H Whitman
"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 by example which of them has more. The contest between Achilles and Agamemnon becomes from the outset a contest between internal and external values..."
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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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Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but…
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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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