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Desire in the Iliad

The Force That Moves the Epic and Its Audience

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This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure and audience reception. Rachel H. Lesser offers a new reading of the poem that shows how the characters' desires, especially those of the mortal hero Achilleus and the divine king Zeus, motivate plot and keep the audience engaged with the epic until and even beyond its end. The author argues that the characters' desires are primarily organized in narrative triangles that feature two parties in conflict over a third. A variety of desires animate these triangles, including sexual passion, longing for a lost loved one, yearning for lamentation, and aggressive desires for vengeance and status, and they are signified with terms such as eros, himeros, pothe, menos, thumos, boule, and eeldor, as well as through the epic's thematic emotions of grief and anger. Desire in the Iliad shows how the mortals' and gods' triangular desires together drive and shape two Iliadic plots, the main plot of Achilleus' withdrawal from the fighting and then return to battle, and the "superplot" of the larger Trojan War story. The author also argues that these plots and their motivating desires arouse the listener's-or reader's-own corresponding desires: narrative desire to know and understand the Iliad's full story, sympathetic desire for characters' welfare, and empathetic passions, longings, and wishes. Our desires invest us in the epic narrative and their resolution brings us satisfaction.
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272 pages
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2022-09-08
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OUP Oxford
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9780192691668
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9780192691668
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Rachel H. Lesser earned a BA in Classics from Columbia University and a second BA in Classics and English from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She went on to earn her MA in Classics and PhD in Classics, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published articles on Homer and Sappho, with a focus on women, desire, and intertextuality. She has taught in the Department of Classics at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania since 2016.

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