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The Pity of Achilles - Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad (Paperback)
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The Pity of Achilles - Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad (Paperback)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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In The Pity of Achilleus, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes
of the Iliad--Achilleus' 'wrath, ' heroic values such as honor and
glory, and human mortality and suffering, to mention the most
widely recognized--are connected to each other in a way that
reveals the poem's structural coherence and unity. Kim asks whether
Achilleus' pity toward Priam at the poem's close is, as is widely
believed, a poetic deus ex machina. In other words, is the
conception of Achilleus' pity an expression of a 'later' and 'more
civilized' era, as a way of 'correcting' the warlike savagery that
is an undeniable and significant part of the poem? She concludes,
rather, that Achilleus' final reconciliation with the old king of
Troy-- his 'enemy' according to the warrior ethos in the Iliad--
represents the integral and ultimate resolution of the theme of
Achilleus' 'wrath' that is announced in the poem's opening lines.
This book will be valuable for students and scholars of classical
literature and classical civilization
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