how many readers will notice that slayer and destined victim have so many features in common as to be themselves uncanny doppelgängers? "The traits that define Apollo--bringer and averter of destruction, healing powers, aloofness and withdrawal, youthful beauty, skill in the lyre. . . . These are the traits that also define Achilles."Such examples of "submerged myth" and other Homeric enigmas touch only a fraction of the strange and terrible beauty churning beneath the epic surface of the "Iliad," a rich sample of which is on display in "The War That Killed Achilles."
from The New York Times: Where Men Won Glory
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