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The Gods are the ‘chief source of comedy’ in the lliad - Redfield
- Achilles is a “superhuman adolescent” - TS Eliot
- Hector - “the most human of heroes” - Vandiver 4.
Helen = “The Anti-Woman” - Hauser
- “Homer lingers lovingly over every death” - Sir Moses Finley
- (On sympathy for dying warriors) - “a melancholy music pervades the entire poem” - Van Nortwick 7. Achilles’ speech (in Book 9) “Appears to undercut the entire basis of his society” - Vandiver
“There is no real romantic love in the lliad” - M. Silk
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God’s
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The Gods are the ‘chief source of comedy’ in the lliad - Redfield
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Elliott
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Achilles is a “superhuman adolescent” - TS Eliot
4
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Hector
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Hector - “the most human of heroes” - Vandiver 4.
5
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Helen
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Helen = “The Anti-Woman” - Hauser
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Death
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Homer lingers lovingly over every death” - Sir Moses Finley
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Sympathy
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- “a melancholy music pervades the entire poem” -
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Love
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There is no real romantic love in the lliad” - M. Silk
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Society and achilles
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Achilles’ “Appears to undercut the entire basis of his society” - Vandiver
