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The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer's "Iliad" imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking 'soldier' with 'hero' in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Achilles
• Subtitle: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages
• Author: Katherine Callen King
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• EAN: 9780520074071
• ISBN: 0520074076
• ID: 04615691
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. January 1991

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