Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals
28 Ancient Ideals Ah, no won der / the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suff ered / years of agony all for her, for such ...
The Hero 29 is at Troy for a simple reason: he promised he would fi ght. He gave his word, swore an oath, and now he is in Asia ...
30 Ancient Ideals does not mention Agamemnon’s fi nal, rather anguished demand, that Achilles recognize him as the greater man. ...
The Hero 31 the war. He meets his wife Andromache, and there in the arms of a servant is Astyanax, his son, the boy the Trojans ...
32 Ancient Ideals set it down on the ground, fi ery in the sunlight, and raising his son, he kissed him [and] tossed him in his ...
The Hero 33 We know Achilles fi rst through his quarrel with Agamemnon, when his pride has been gored. We know Hector best as a ...
34 Ancient Ideals for the family. The pure hero often sees family as an impediment and is always suspicious of it, if not hostil ...
The Hero 35 the safety of Troy. Hector wants to live a long time. Achilles would not give up the prospect of glory for anything; ...
36 Ancient Ideals them / his skull warped to a point / sprouting clumps of scraggly, woolly hair” (II, 251–255). The ugly man ca ...
The Hero 37 Achilles is in love with war in a way that Hector (and of course Thersites) never could be, and as a rule he fi ghts ...
38 Ancient Ideals and idealistic considerations in favor of techniques to solve the problems at hand. Pragmatism is not about ma ...
The Hero 39 livered the third blow. If I could have fought you myself, you would not have stood a chance. But you’ve won now— en ...
40 Ancient Ideals This is one of the most diffi cult aspects of the heroic ideal for the modern middle- class man or woman to ac ...
The Hero 41 on during the Trojan onslaught, before Achilles retook the fi eld, would mock him. So he decides to try to stand his ...
42 Ancient Ideals Hector’s fate. But not quite. At the point of decision, Zeus raises his celestial balance beam on high. In one ...
The Hero 43 When Hector is fi nally dead, Achilles pierces his ankles and runs a rawhide thong through them. He yokes the body t ...
44 Ancient Ideals But there must be limits to the true hero’s rage. When he has taken his retribution— and war is always based i ...
The Hero 45 Achilles reaches the pinnacle of his proud magnanimity in the encounter with K ing Priam, when Priam, guided by Herm ...
46 Ancient Ideals your sons, / so many fi ne brave boys?” (XXIV, 605–608). For a long time Achilles has inhabited only his own m ...
The Hero 47 other princes together for council? He does not need to do so now. He has shown himself to be the superior man, the ...
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