[lbo-talk] BOAN/Illiad

[Charles Brown]

Yes. But there is so much more to the episode than that, which is only its
point of departure. The tragedy of Akhilleus is his bearing up under a
tragedy imposed on him by forces beyond his control, and the poem's
discovery, in that tragedy, of what it means to be human.

Carrol

^^^
What does the poem discover it means to be human in that time and place ?

Charles