Rowman and Littlefield | Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué, centers on the figure of Briseis in the Iliad—who may seem at first sight to be marginal to the plot of that epic but who turns out to be essential to it—and even to the character-definition of the central hero of the Iliad, Achilles himself. Moreover, Briseis turns out… Read more