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	<title>The Humanities Index &#187; Epic</title>
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		<title>The Epic Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The epic hero has a double role. He (there are no epical woman heroes as far as I know) is an individual person with an habitual virtue from which his exploits flow, and he is representative of the group to whom the exploit is important. Since the performance of the exploit is important because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lessons of Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You must crave sunlight soon. —Anticleia to Odysseus Perhaps the darkest moment in Odysseus’ journey home is his visit to the Underworld. Here the dead speak, whether the literal ghosts in the Homeric version of the afterlife, or the metaphorical shades from Odysseus’ past; the hero must meet and learn from their experiences if he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iliad: Rage and War</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/the-iliad-rage-and-war</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the <i>Iliad</i> is the rage of Achilles and the consequences of that rage for two nations.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Gilgamesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilgamesh, though over 3000 years old, is contemporary in its thematic concerns as it is alien in many of its cultural practices.]]></description>
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		<title>That Damn Flood</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/that-damn-flood</link>
		<comments>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/that-damn-flood#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been curious as to why that damn flood episode is in <i>Gilgamesh</i>. I mean, it seems so out of place and disrupts the unity of the narrative.]]></description>
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		<title>Hector: Family Man, but Hero First</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/hector-family-man-but-hero-first</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book VI of Homer's <i>Iliad</i> shows that Hector is torn between his responsibilities as a hero to his people and as a the head of the household.]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Beyond Their Fates</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/fighting-beyond-their-fates</link>
		<comments>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/fighting-beyond-their-fates#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patroclus is the warrior fighting beyond his fate, not great enough to level the walls of Troy, but just a soldier who is fated to die outside the walls of Ilium.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological Themes in Gilgamesh</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/ecological-themes-gilgamesh</link>
		<comments>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/ecological-themes-gilgamesh#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ecological concerns of <i>Gilgamesh</i> seem to be linked to the greater fate of the heroes and the people that they represent.]]></description>
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		<title>The Taming of Nature in Gilgamesh</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/the-taming-of-nature-in-gilgamesh</link>
		<comments>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/the-taming-of-nature-in-gilgamesh#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>Gilgamesh</i> explores what humanity has lost by a careless and prodigal waste of natural resources.]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Odysseus</title>
		<link>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/the-return-of-odysseus</link>
		<comments>http://humx.org/movement/ancient/the-return-of-odysseus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lessons of the voyage must come into play if Odysseus is to reclaim his property and finally put the chaos of this wanderings behind him.]]></description>
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