The Iliad: Structure and Interpretation

摘要: The Iliad is organized according to two complementary, structural principles, one related its narrative action and traditional mythological content, the other style artistic norms of eighth century B.C. Generally speaking, consists three parts or stages: Books 1-7, 8-17 (perhaps excluding Book 10, Doloneia), 18 24. Trojans, followed by death Patroclus, raises moral intellectual issues that go beyond anything in perhaps poetic tradition; this stage distinctively Iliadic. Achilles' aristeia final poem, culminating killing Hector mutilation his corpse, even more dislocated untraditional than comparison with Diomedes, Achilles stands out as a deadly daemonic force destruction barely acknowledging human limits.Keywords: Achilles; aristeia; Doloneia; Iliad; Patroclus; Trojans