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The Anger of Achilles

"Depart from the wrath to come. Be very careful, I tell you ..." Herman Melville, Moby Dick .

Charles Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), Fury of Achilles , Hermitage

is the divine fury, mythological, the famous " rage of Achilles son of Peleus, whose "fatal cholera caused many misfortunes to the Greeks." Achilles, like Mars, God of War, flanked on his right by Athena, who "wants to appease his anger, rushes, silver sword in hand, over the corpse of Hector, who has just kill to avenge his friend (canto XVIII the Iliad). Him who loved "discord", fighting and fighting "is a superb wearing armor, forged by Hephaestus, who accompanies him to his left, while Poseidon, god of the sea, further exacerbates their anger on the right side box. On the left side, Phoebus, son of Apollo, contrary to this divine vengeance, flickering shadows projected on this grand vision, which summarizes in a single image, all Iliad. Antoine Coypel father of artist and art theorist who argued for the scholarship, opened the way for a literary painting determined to restore, as was done in the theater or the opera, all the complexity of a text. This work of his son Charles Antoine perfectly illustrates this trend.

Sylvie Douce de la Salle in Anger de Zoé Valdés, Editorial Lumen

This famous early the Iliad , Homer's epic poem, summarizes the history of the work and conflict triggering the fatal events. The Iliad , the oldest poem in European literature (eighth century BC) is the legend of the Trojan War ( Ilio in Greek): Paris, son of Priam (King of Troy), kidnaps Helen , wife of Menelaus (brother of the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon) and starts a war between Trojans and Greeks.

Homer tries to reflect in his Achilles' two passions: his wrath against Agamemnon to snatch his beloved slave Briseis, and rage against Hector for killing his friend Patroclus. It is, therefore, the recreation of a hero, like all the heroic poems, steeped in the tradition of the legendary war between the Greeks and Trojans.

Achilles, the swift-footed son of the mortal Peleus and the goddess Thetis, is the prototype of the classic hero, stand in his intellectual and physical qualities, is ambitious, authoritarian, subtle and persuasive. The hero is stronger, faster and courageous but also a complex and tormented figure, not a god nor a simple man. Achilles rejects the link to the community because it needs to assert its identity and not bow to the capricious authority of Agamemnon, the source of his anger. His foresight to understand and meet his fate placed in a position preeminent among heroes. Achilles knows and accepts human fate: the suffering and death, but does great things only to avenge his friend Patroclus, killed by Hector, and also for glory will be remembered for his exploits: "Now Patroclus , and I'll go underground after you, do not tax experts funeral to bring here the arms and the head of Hector ... "

The enemy of Achilles is the Trojan prince Hector. A hero who is afraid of being defeated, but the fantasy obscures their thoughts and faces that will end up humiliating Achilles: "Remember all kinds of value: "Now that you have / to be a good spear and a bold fighter." Achilles defeats Hector in a duel and the work closes with the funeral of Patroclus in Achaean camp and Hector in Troy.

Malraux said that the tomb of the hero is the heart of the living where he remained throughout the centuries to represent the values \u200b\u200band pieties of a community. Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey , has endured in the collective memory of our culture, is the hero of the poets. Achilles is his voice and his emblem is the ultimate epic hero, magical, clairvoyant and devastating glorifies the hero tragic meaning for man to live what is meaningless. Hector beneath him, is the hero of illusions, who, like many of us, like the common man is caught between illusion and his own inability to disillusionment. The Iliad was too much for Hector.

Bibliography. Nicholas Casariego Heroes and anti-heroes in literature . Anaya