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The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrier Achilles presented in Homer's Iliad imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking "soldier" with "hero" in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.King, Katherine C. is the author of 'Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages', published 1991 under ISBN 9780520074071 and ISBN 0520074076.
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