56 min
Homer’s Iliad Part 8 Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground
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- Society & Culture
Reflections on Homer's Iliad - The heroic dilemma - James Joyce called the whole structure of heroism a damned lie. Mr. Bailie in this series of presentations from 1988 explores the archetypal aspects of Homer's heroes and begins to assess the implications of René Girard's mimetic hypothesis of culture founding violence.
Reflections on Homer's Iliad - The heroic dilemma - James Joyce called the whole structure of heroism a damned lie. Mr. Bailie in this series of presentations from 1988 explores the archetypal aspects of Homer's heroes and begins to assess the implications of René Girard's mimetic hypothesis of culture founding violence.
56 min