The Wounded Hero: Non-Fatal Injury in Homer's Iliad
Tamara Neal (Lecturer in Classics, Universities of Sydney and New England, Australia)
The Wounded Hero: Non-Fatal Injury in Homer’s Iliad
Tamara Neal (Lecturer in Classics, Universities of Sydney and New England, Australia)
An investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer’s Iliad, this book demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem.
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