Iliad Scholars

Question 1

Scholars for anger?
(+ Year & idea)

Answer 1

Graziosi
2016
Achilles’ anger is the subject of the poem
Achilles’ anger demonstrates the limits of mortality

Question 2

Scholars for reconciliation

Answer 2

Griffin
1980
The ending allows opponents to meet at a level where they both see the fundamental condition of life (to suffer and die)
Priam and Achilles gaze at the beauty of the other which shows that out of suffering and disaster beauty emerges