From ‘dog-face’ to ‘death runs fast,’ Wilson explains how she worked to revitalize Homer while remaining true to the ancient Greek.
,” whose first word is “andra” , the word defines the subject of the poem to come, which will focus on intense emotions and their devastating consequences. “The Iliad”
I chose “wrath,” and I use “wrathful” consistently for the various cognate words that appear later in the Greek poem , because “mēnis” is not ordinary anger or normal human rage. Angry men in battle kill a few other men, if they are skillful, brave and lucky. Only divinely backed “wrath” could cause the level of destruction that Achilles brings about, paradoxically, through a period of inaction and refusal to fight, thanks to the answered prayers of his goddess mother Thetis to Zeus.
On the most linguistically straightforward reading, the phrase suggests that his mother thinks Achilles would prefer to join with someone other than a woman — such as Patroclus, his beloved dead friend. This may be a surprise, given that earlier in “The Iliad,” the two men were described as sharing their beds with enslaved women, and they are never described by Homer as having sex with each other — although by the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.
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