Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the Iliad
Autor Emily P. Austinen Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 2021
Grief and the Hero examines Achilles’ experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad’s study of anger. No action can undo his friend Patroklos’ death, but the experience of death drives him to behave as though he can achieve something restorative. Rather than assuming that grief gives rise to anger, as most scholars have done, Grief and the Hero pays close attention to the poem’s representation of the origin of these emotions. In the Iliad, only Achilles’ grief for Patroklos is joined with the word pothê, “longing”; no other grief in the poem is described with this term. The Iliad depicts Achilles’ grief as the rupture of shared life—an insight that generates a new way of reading the epic. Achilles’ anguish drives him to extremes, oscillating between self-isolation and seeking communal expressions of grief; between weeping abundantly and relentlessly pursuing battle; between varied threats of mutilation, deeds of vengeance, and other vows. Yet his yearning for life shared with Patroklos is the common denominator. Here lies the profound insight of the Iliad. All of Achilles’ grief-driven deeds arise from his longing for life with Patroklos, and thus all of these deeds are, in a deep sense, futile. He yearns for something unattainable—undoing the reality of death. Grief and the Hero will appeal not only to scholars and students of Homer but to all humanists. Loss, longing, and even revenge touch many human lives, and the insights of the Iliad have broad resonance.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780472132324
ISBN-10: 0472132326
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10: 0472132326
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Notă biografică
Emily P. Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics and the College, University of Chicago.
Recenzii
"Austin has delivered a well-written and persuasive book based on the analysis of a considerable amount of textual evidence. ...Grief and the Hero makes a significant contribution to Homeric scholarship and is a must-read from which students and seasoned Homerists will benefit greatly."
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Grief and the Hero is a deeply humanistic book. ...Grief and the Hero is recommended not only to Homerists and advanced students, but to any scholars with an interest in Homer — including, given the importance of Austin’s work for central themes of the Iliad, all those who teach Homer in translation."
—New England Classical Journal
—New England Classical Journal
"There are a few dozen books about Homer I think a Homerist must read; there are only a handful I think everyone should try. Emily’s Grief and the Hero is now one of them."
—Sententiae Antiquae
—Sententiae Antiquae
"... Austin has done an admirable job at exploring the futility of longing for a dead hero... (a) most valuable addition to the Classical bookshelf" - Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin
"Austin has offered us a splendid account of the hero of the Iliad through the lens of grief - his own and, by contrast, that of the Trojans. I recommend this 'robustly literary' study for its careful argument, its engagement with current scholarship and its eminent readability."
Descriere
A new understanding of Achilles’ grief for Patroklos in the Iliad