Achilles’ character as an internal critique of warmongering ideals in the Iliad

Achilles’ character as an internal critique of warmongering ideals in the Iliad

Автор: Marren M.

Журнал: Schole. Философское антиковедение и классическая традиция @classics-nsu-schole

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In this paper, I show how Achilles’ faults work as a lens through which we more readily see the problematic nature of ideals that cast war - and especially an aggressive war of conquest - in a poeticized and desirable light. I argue that in Homer’s Iliad, idealized images of war, which promise super-human glory, in the end, serve to undo and waste human life. I do not mean to say that in this archetypal war epic we find an outright critique of war. However, I argue that the Iliad holds its poeticized images of war in tension with the gruesome, life-negating violence to which these idealized representations give way.

Anger, egotistical self-love, psychology, solipsism, shame

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/147243509

IDR: 147243509   |   DOI: 10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-2-550-565

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