Nature and Culture in the "Iliad" : 'The Tragedy of Hector'

To all readers of the Iliad James Redfield poses the compelling question:

Why do we care about these stories which are so far from us and which we know are not true?  Redfield rediscovers this familiar classic by placing it at a distance, by describing it as expressive of the alien social conditions which produced it. In answer to his question Redfield provides at once a picture of the Iliad as a unified work of art and of Homeric society as a cultural system.

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