Achilles and Hector: Homeric Hero - Softcover

Benardete, Seth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587310015 ISBN 13: 9781587310010

Publisher: St. Augustine's Press, 2005

Synopsis

Seth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years later, included in this volume, he looks back on what he sees as the limits of his original reading of the Iliad. Yet he seems to have been aware of the fundamental problems from early on that he wrestled with explicitly when he returned to Homer some forty years later: the question of the relations among gods, fate, and human choice, which lies at the core of his late "Platonic reading" of the Odyssey, is already guiding his understanding of the Iliad. And he saw, in working out that understanding, how those relations take on a very distinct form for the tragic hero in contrast with the comic hero - Achilles in contrast with Odysseus.

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About the Author

Until his death in 2001, Seth Benardete was Professor of Classics at New York University and author of numerous works on ancient Greek philosophy and literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1587310015
• ISBN 13: 9781587310010
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140