Manhood and heroism

Michael Clarke

doi:10.1017/CCOL0521813026.006

Manhood and heroism

Michael Clarke

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The opening crisis of the Iliad drives Achilles to send uncounted hosts of his own comrades to death, merely in order to prove what folly it was for Agamemnon to belittle him in the assembly of his peers (1.1-5, 240-4, 407-12). By any standards this is a bizarrely exaggerated response to an insult: But as the story develops the moral problem of Achilles' behaviour looms less large than its unsought consequences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Companion to Homer
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	74-90
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9780511998935
ISBN (Print)	0521012465, 9780521813020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521813026.006
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2004
Externally published	Yes

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