The Wounded Hero: Non-Fatal Injury in Homer's Iliad

Title
The Wounded Hero: Non-Fatal Injury in Homer's Iliad
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Neal, Beatrice Tamara
Type of document
Book
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Bern, Switzerland
Edition
1
Series
Sapheneia
UNE publication id
une:1235
Abstract
This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.
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ISBN
3039108794

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