If one acknowledges that the Trojan cycle rests on an Indo-European myth of a Dawn abducted, captive then delivered (or: eloping, absent, then taken back by her husband), as has been suggested in my earlier article 'L'Iliade vue de l'Olympe', Achilles' wrath, the main theme of the Iliad, might be expected to take its origin and its original meaning from the cosmic religion of the Indo-Europeans. One might further suppose that: 1° Achilles, the son of Thetis (another Dawn), is the Sun. His withdrawal represents the disappearance of the sun in winter, and his return, in book XVIII, its reapperance in the spring. 2° Patrocles, unsuccessful in his attempt to take the place of the sun, as Phaeton did, represents the light of the dawn which prece...
Humankind is a story driven species in that we rationalize the proceedings of the world around us by...
<p>This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad,...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
If one acknowledges that the Trojan cycle rests on an Indo-European myth of a Dawn abducted, captive...
All three descriptions of dawn in Statius’ Achilleid (1. 242–5; 1. 819–20; 2. 1–4) are tightly co...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
In her article "Achilles Lord of Scythia," Gloria Pinney cogently argues that Akhilleus was sometime...
This study, in re-examining the various acritical themes which previous review has found in the Achi...
International audienceFocussed on two types of crisis, an individual one and an institutional one wh...
The purpose of this paper is to outline a clear view of the Iliad and Odyssey data about the Sun, th...
In this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles' heel and Hom...
Achille et Patrocle sont deux figures tirées de l’Iliade qui ont connu de multiples réécritures s...
Building on his research of 2009, the author of the following article will discuss some parallels to...
As a part of the series on female deities and demons in the Indo-European culture, the article begin...
There are two aspects about the Trojan War, the historical and the literary. For 1200 BC, the Late B...
Humankind is a story driven species in that we rationalize the proceedings of the world around us by...
<p>This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad,...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
If one acknowledges that the Trojan cycle rests on an Indo-European myth of a Dawn abducted, captive...
All three descriptions of dawn in Statius’ Achilleid (1. 242–5; 1. 819–20; 2. 1–4) are tightly co...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
In her article "Achilles Lord of Scythia," Gloria Pinney cogently argues that Akhilleus was sometime...
This study, in re-examining the various acritical themes which previous review has found in the Achi...
International audienceFocussed on two types of crisis, an individual one and an institutional one wh...
The purpose of this paper is to outline a clear view of the Iliad and Odyssey data about the Sun, th...
In this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles' heel and Hom...
Achille et Patrocle sont deux figures tirées de l’Iliade qui ont connu de multiples réécritures s...
Building on his research of 2009, the author of the following article will discuss some parallels to...
As a part of the series on female deities and demons in the Indo-European culture, the article begin...
There are two aspects about the Trojan War, the historical and the literary. For 1200 BC, the Late B...
Humankind is a story driven species in that we rationalize the proceedings of the world around us by...
<p>This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad,...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...