Rage Won’t Raise the Dead: The Ghost of Patroklos in Iliad 23 (opens in new tab)

Book 23, as I discuss in the first post to this book, revisits political and heroic themes from books 1 and 2 and offers an opportunity for the epic’s participants and audience alike to reconsider issues of honor, distribution, and institutional order through Achilles’ chairmanship of the funeral games for Patroklos. Often these games are … Continue reading Rage Won’t Raise the Dead: The Ghost of Patroklos in Iliad 23