SOURCE: Clarke, Michael. “Between Lions and Men: Images of the Hero in the Iliad,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 36, no. 2 (summer 1995): 137-59.
In the following essay, Clarke follows the implications of Homer's beast similes in the Iliad, highlighting their contribution to the poem's theme of extreme heroism that culminates in self-destruction.
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