Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond (Lanham MD; Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012), xiv + 255 pp., $29.95, ISBN 9780739146910 (pbk). Richard Holway’s Becoming Achilles fits into a rich vein of scholarship on the ancient world in which the concepts of psychology or psychoanalysis are used to interrogate classical…
Month: February 2014
New book places child sacrifice at heart of Athenian culture
Review of The Parthenon Enigma by Joan Breton Connelly