Becoming Achilles : child-sacrifice, war, and misrule in the Iliad and beyond /
"Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens ag...
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2012
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| 505 | 0 | |a The quarrel -- Heroic psychology -- Mythobiographies -- Catharsis and denial -- Fathers and sons -- Mothers and sons -- Departures from maternal agendas -- Self in crisis -- Epilogue: Achilles and Socrates. | |
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