I hadn't read Auden on this before, it's really quite powerful.
I have some views on Hektor, his wife, the Greek city states who attacked and whether Achilles only had two choices as well. I tend to sympathy with Hektor.
And yep I am aware that Homer is supposed to be bronze age as well. I've never agreed.
Simone Weil wrote a powerful book: The Illiad: A Poem of Force. Free online. Homer was a multiplicity of bards. As Shakespeare was a multiplicity. Interestingly in reading Wordsworth we find the fame of Shakespeare's theater eclipsed within a short time by Dryden, and of his reputation not so great as to be mentioned-Wordsworth commenting on the reception of Shakespeare by the period of time prior to the 19th century.
I hadn't read Auden on this before, it's really quite powerful.
I have some views on Hektor, his wife, the Greek city states who attacked and whether Achilles only had two choices as well. I tend to sympathy with Hektor.
And yep I am aware that Homer is supposed to be bronze age as well. I've never agreed.
Simone Weil wrote a powerful book: The Illiad: A Poem of Force. Free online. Homer was a multiplicity of bards. As Shakespeare was a multiplicity. Interestingly in reading Wordsworth we find the fame of Shakespeare's theater eclipsed within a short time by Dryden, and of his reputation not so great as to be mentioned-Wordsworth commenting on the reception of Shakespeare by the period of time prior to the 19th century.