tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post23552102267797056..comments2024-01-30T12:46:10.810-05:00Comments on Yappa Ding Ding: Measured in MillihelensYappahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-69159294117250863092010-06-18T15:15:21.189-04:002010-06-18T15:15:21.189-04:00Hi Ferd,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to y...Hi Ferd,<br /><br />Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I have been trying on your idea when thinking about the Iliad. I like the idea of Homer recognizing the defeated enemy as a worthy hero and I think that's a good way to describe it, but I think it's a little different in the Iliad in that the protagonists are bad guys in the Iliad - especially Agammemnon (who leads the forces), but also Achilles.<br /><br />But most of my musing about the Iliad these days has to do with my developing idea that it's all about how and why the dark ages happened. It's a bit more subtle than that because Homer doesn't talk about the dark ages, and probably didn't think of them as such.<br /><br />I should admit that I have no classical scholarship whatsoever, and while I've read a lot about the time my reading has mostly been primary sources or history, rather than any sort of literary criticism. I love the Iliad and read it frequently, and enjoy all other writing that deals with the story, whether it's Aeschylus or Shakespeare or Yeats or Sartre.Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-57559455266635195142010-06-06T19:52:47.078-04:002010-06-06T19:52:47.078-04:00But when aboriginals honour the animal they killed...But when aboriginals honour the animal they killed [make a hero of it] this doesn't mean they regard it as having been the wrong hunt [this, apropos your suggestion that the treatment of Hector suggests Homer (?) thought it had been the wrong war].Ferdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629986970523159482noreply@blogger.com