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Pity of Achilles: Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad

Pity of Achilles: Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad

Kim, Jinyo

Paperback

Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0847686213
ISBN13: 9780847686216
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 15 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
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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