Abstract
In the course of the evolution of an epic hero, there comes a point at which he has to make a choice between two ways of life. It is a motif that goes right back to the Iliad:Hom. Il. 9.410-16For my goddess mother, silver-footed Thetis, tells me that the doom I carry towards the finality of death is twofold. If I stay here and fight around the Trojans' city, my return home is lost, but I shall have imperishable glory. But if I return home to the dear land of my fathers, that noble glory is lost, but I shall have long life and the finality of death will not come to me quickly.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Classics
Cited by
14 articles.
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