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Journal Article
Achilles and Helen and Homer's Telling Silence
2020
Overview
Abstract
The present study focuses on an episode attested only in Proclus' summary of the now-lost epic poem Cypria, a suggestively erotic 'rendezvous' between Achilles and Helen that appears to heighten the hero's appreciation of her as a driving force, convincing him to persist in the war for her sake. This most prominently contradicts Homer's portrayal of an Achilles whose choices are fundamentally motivated by his quest for personal honour. As this paper argues, however, the story, though probably post-Homeric in itself, still has a traditional basis in the way it depicts Achilles' susceptibility to eros. On the other hand, and more importantly, Homer does seem to tacitly acknowledge this less standardised aspect but at the same time agonistically suppresses it, thus achieving an advantageously idiosyncratic coalescence between tradition and individuality.
Publisher
Brill,Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
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