AchillesThis retelling of the epic tale of Achilles recreates Homer's fated hero. The story moves from classical myth to the writings of John Keats to become a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. |
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Achilles Agamemnon armour arms arrow beach begins blood body bones break breath bright carried catches child Chiron close comes commander dark Daughter dead Deidamia dust earth eyes face fall father feels fight fingers fire fish flame flesh follow girl give goes gone Greek ground grow hair hand head hear heart Hector Helen hold horse Keats keep kill King leaves lift light living look Menelaus MICHIGAN mortal mother mouth move Myrmidons never night Odysseus once palace Paris passed Patroclus Peleus plain pressing Priam pushes Pyrrha river rock says seen sense shape side sound speaks spear stand stop takes tells Thetis thing thought throat till Tiresias tree Trojan Troy turns waits walking walls watched women wood wound Zeus
References to this book
Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon Barbara Graziosi,Emily Greenwood No preview available - 2007 |