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

by Jinyo Kim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847686213
• ISBN13: 9780847686216
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"