Caroline Alexander Quotes
Surely, By All Convention, The Iliad Will End Here, With The Triumphant Return Of Its Vindicated Hero. But The Iliad Is Not A Conventional Epic, And At The Very Moment Of Its Hero's Greatest Military Triumph, Homer Diverts His Focus From Achilles To The Epic's Two Most Important Casualties, Patroklos And Hektor: It Is To The Consequences Of Their Deaths, Especially To The Victor, That All Action Of The Iliad Has Been Inexorably Leading.
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