Don't despair your mother loves you. Don't be proud because she has to.
We left Achilles at rock bottom. His rage launched a sequence of events that were not only devastating for his comrades, but the person he cares about most in the world is dead. His desire for revenge then led him to slaughter untold numbers of Trojans, yet killing the man who killed his best friend... Continue Reading →
In the first half of the Iliad, Homer creates dramatic tension between the historic role every audience member knows Achilles plays in the Trojan war and the fact that he is now sitting on the sidelines with a declared intention to return home. What will entice him to return to battle? Does his rage subside?... Continue Reading →
In my last essay I explored the origins of the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon. Hopefully I made a compelling case that the conflict was more than just the confiscation of a prize of war, but at the root of the situation were two competing visions about what it meant to be “great”. Agamemnon’s troops... Continue Reading →
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