| Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages Contributor(s): King, Katherine Callen (Author), Lattimore, Deborah Nourse (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0520074076 ISBN-13: 9780520074071 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $41.53 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 356 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |