The Wounded Hero
Neal, Tamara![The Wounded Hero](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/200/20017203/CHSBZCOP0320017203.jpg)
This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plo...