Richard Kerr Holway: 1 book
Becoming Achilles
Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond,Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic,...
