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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, 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.
Price: $41.95
Pages: 356
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
07 January 1991
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520074071
Format: Paperback
Katherine Callen King is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles