Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages

The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer's Iliad imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking "soldier" with "hero" in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.

Literature & Fiction

Lattimore, Deborah Nourse

King, Katherine Callen Callen

History & Criticism

University of California Press

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Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages