Abstract:

Although the Iliad is typically approached as a version of, say, Catch-22, the epic is not about armed conflict and its horrors. The war at Troy serves the poet as a metaphor for life. Advanced in the hexameters is an account of the genesis, and a defense, of the humanist view that men and women occupy an autonomous place midway between clods and gods. Plato's harsh criticism of Homer's work comes into focus once Achilles's transformation is interpreted along these philosophical lines. Homer is rejecting what Plato, who flattens human reality and calls it justice, endorses.

中文翻译：

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中间人：荷马的哲学狂想曲

摘要：

尽管《伊利亚特》通常被视为《第二十二条军规》的一个版本，但这部史诗并不是关于武装冲突及其恐怖的。特洛伊战争为诗人提供了生活的隐喻。六音步的高级部分描述了人文主义观点的起源和辩护，即男人和女人占据着介于土块和神之间的自主地位。一旦沿着这些哲学路线解释阿喀琉斯的转变，柏拉图对荷马作品的严厉批评就会成为焦点。荷马拒绝柏拉图所赞同的观点，柏拉图将人类现实扁平化并称之为正义。