Title: Achilles : paradigms of the war hero from Homer to the Middle Ages /
Authors: King, Katherine Callen
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Homer Characters Achilles.; Homer.; Achilles In literature.; Classical literature History and criticism; Trojan War Literature and the war; Literature, Medieval History and criticism; Epic literature History and criticism.
Contents: Part I: The archetype: Homer's Achilles -- Best of the Achaians -- Be<a>st of the Achaians -- The wrath: Timé̄ and Kléos -- Reconciliation -- Postscript: Timé̄ and Kléos in the Odyssey -- Part II: Classical versions of the Homeric warrior -- The epic cycle and lyric -- Sophokles -- Euripides -- Plato -- Part III: Lover of war: classical Rome to Medieval Europe -- Classical passion -- The romantic and rationalistic traditions -- The Ilias Latina -- The Dares tradition -- Part IV: Soldier of love: archaic Greece to Medieval Europe -- Early lovers -- Polyxena -- Dares and dictys -- Medieval lover -- Love and wrath.