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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology,
in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the
Iliad and Beyond, Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites
individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial
childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic, glory-seeking
ancient Greek cultures. Not only aggression but knowledge of
sacrificial parenting must be purged. Just as Zeus contrives to
have threats to his regime play out harmlessly (to him) in the
mortal realm, so the Iliad dramatizes threats to Archaic and later
Greek cultures in the safe arena of poetic performance. The epic
represents in displaced form destructive mother-son and
father-daughter liaisons and resulting strife within and between
generations. Holway calls into question the Iliad's (and many
scholars') presentation of Achilles as a hero who speaks truth to
power, learns through suffering, and exemplifies kingly virtues
that Agamemnon lacks. So too the Iliad's cathartic process, whether
conceived as purging innate aggression or arriving at moral
clarity. Instead, Holway argues, Achilles (and Socrates) try to
prove they are not what at bottom they experience themselves to
be-needy, defenseless children, who fear to acknowledge, much less
speak out against, parents' use of them to meet parents' needs.
What emerges from Holway's analysis is not only a new reading of
the Iliad, from its first word to its last, but a revised account
of the family dynamics underlying ancient Greek cultures.
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