Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages by Katherine Callen King

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

Katherine Callen King with Deborah Nourse Lattimore (Illustrator)

356 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction emotional tense medium-paced
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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, gen...

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