Eros-polemos. Reflections on desire, conflict and identity in the Iliad
Abstract
Our aim is to take the Iliad as a textual basis, together with other classical and more contemporary sources, to analyse from a philosophical perspective issues present in Homer’s text relating to political identity, conflict and desire. At the heart of the military and political enterprise of the Trojan War, we can identify the actions of Aphrodite and the predominant role of erotic desire, a paradoxical, ambiguous and potentially transgressive force capable of threatening the very limits of political organisation. An analysis of the text of the Iliad will allow us to construct a hermeneutic reading that places eros at the centre of the forces that drive the events recounted by Homer.
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