Achilleus Pity: Oral Style And The Unity Of The Iliad; Author: Kim, Jinyo; Hardback; Book

Author: Kim, Jinyo
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover); Hardback; Book
192 pages
Published: November 1999
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0847686205
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In The Pity of Achilles, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes of the Iliad -- Achilles' 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 Achilles' pity toward Priam at the poems close is, as is widely believed, a poetic deus ex machina. In other words, is the conception of Achills' pity an expression of a later and more civilized era, as a way of correcting the warlike savagery that is an undeniable and significant part of the poem? She concludes, rather, that Achilles' final reconciliation with the old king of Troy -- his enemy according to the warrior ethos in the Iliad -- represents tAn examination of how the major themes of the Iliad -Achilleus' wrath, heroic values such as honour 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.