Becoming Achilles
Becoming Achilles Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Richard Holway shows how the epic…
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Becoming Achilles
Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Not only aggression but knowledge of sacrificial parenting must be purged. Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic, glory-seeking ancient Greek cultures.
The epic represents in displaced form destructive mother-son and father-daughter liaisons and resulting strife within and between generations. Just as Zeus contrives to have threats to his regime play out harmlessly (to him) in the mortal realm, so the Iliad dramatizes threats to Archaic and later Greek cultures in the safe arena of poetic performance. Holway calls into question the Iliad's (and many scholars') presentation of Achilles as a hero who speaks truth to power,
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