published in1955.The poem “The Shield of Achilles” is Auden’s response tothe detailed description (or ekphrasis) of the shield worn by thehero Achilles in Homer’s epic “The Iliad”.
The Homeric description of the shield of Achilles (Iliad 18.478–608) is Western literature's earliest and most influential attempt to evoke images in words. This article examines the passage anew, demonstrating not only its paradigmatic concern with the collaborative and competing resources of word ...
Free Essay: A Comparative Study of the Shield of Achilles and the Shield of Aeneas In Homer’s great work, the Iliad, Achilles is given a set of armor,...
The Shield of Achilles W.H.Auden 1. Central Feeling/Themes A Juxtaposition between the cultured and civilized world and the corrupt and oppressed world War A...
The Art of Poetics and Politics: The Shield of Achilles This book provides a current reading of the Shield of Achilles in the Iliad. Looking to combat views that regard aspects of the passage as confused and ine... B Street 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 加载更多研究...
The description of Achilles' shield in Iliad 18 is the main literary model for the ekphrasis of the shield of Aeneas in Aeneid 8. 617-731. 1) Given Vergil's penchant for multiple allusions, however, it should not surprise one to discover references also to other models, and as关键词:Verg...
Showing a limited preview of this publication: Konstantinos SpanoudakisThe Shield of Salvation: Dionysus’ Shieldin Nonnus’Dionysiaca25.380–572*The long tradition of shield-descriptions is founded on Homer: inIliad18 The-tis hands over to her son Achilles a Hephaestus-fashioned shield whose deco-rat...
In Book XVIII of the Iliad, Homer describes the construction of Achilles' shield by Hephaestus, god of technology. This shield is the symbol of Achilles, the central hero of the Homeric epic. At the same time, the shield constitutes a totality, wider than the epic itself. In a poetic ...
In Book XVIII of the Iliad, Homer describes the construction of Achilles' shield by Hephaestus, god of technology. This shield is the symbol of Achilles, the central hero of the Homeric epic. At the same time, the shield constitutes a totality, wider than the epic itself. In a poetic ...
In Homer's Iliad Achilles needed a new shield because he lost his original armour when Patroclus was killed fighting in it. His new shield carries representations of the sky, a city at peace with a wedding and a lawsuit in progress, a city at war with an ambush in a riverDA West...