Beauty, love and uprootedness. On Helen in the Iliad

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  • Aida Míguez Barciela
Keywords: Iliad´s structure, gods, ontological question, distance

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An interpretation of Helen in the Iliad is outlined attending to the question that makes of her the split and rootless figure capable of reflecting issues of the background of the poem. The reason of the uprootedness appears in the third book as the terrible experience of beauty, i.e. the inevitability of the power of Aphrodite. Why eros names the inherent uprootedness in the recognition of the beauty is clarified through some fragments of Sappho and other allusions to the greek corpus.

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Míguez Barciela, A. (2008). Beauty, love and uprootedness. On Helen in the Iliad. Daimon Revista Internacional De Filosofia, (45), 41–54. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/93261
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