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		The shield of Achilles was hammered and forged into shape, according to The Iliad, by Hephaestus, who inscribed on it the history of its own making, a tormented saga of unremitting strife, havoc and death.
		This review of Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History misrepresented the views of Sir Michael Howard, author of the book's introduction.
		It was Auden's poem about September 1939 that people emailed to each other in New York last autumn; here it is his reflection on the Homeric shield that Bobbitt quotes before writing his postscript about America's 'historic wound'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4434391-102280,00.html (1037 words)

	CLAS E-116/W - Resources
		The Shield of Achilles: Ends of the Iliad and Beginnings of the Polis.
		Homer's Poetic Justice: This series of five video dialogues examines the major themes of the Iliad through the lens of a litigation scene depicted on the shield of Achilles.
		As these dialogues will show, the shield can be seen as a microcosm, exploring in compressed form the big issues of the Iliad.
	courses.dce.harvard.edu /~clase116/resources.html (1037 words)

	Achilles de Flandres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Achilles' modus operandi is to convince a set of influential leaders in a major country that his tactical genius is at their military's disposal.
		As Achilles matures, he is noted for having a brilliant mind in tactical matters, as well as a large number of sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies, two traits that will define and characterize his short and brutal life.
		Achilles' genius and charisma are enough to overcome his noted history of betrayal; his sociopathy makes him unable to remain loyal to any of his masters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Achilles_de_Flandres (1497 words)

	Achilles - MSN Encarta
		The quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, the subsequent battle, and the ransoming of Hector’s body are recounted in the Iliad, an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to the poet Homer.
		Achilles, in Greek mythology, greatest of the Greek warriors in the Trojan War.
		Warned that they could not conquer Troy without the aid of Achilles, the Greeks sent Odysseus, king of Ithaca, to find him.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567499/Achilles.html (431 words)

	Achilles
		Alexander received or took the sacred and great ancient shield and weapons of Achilles from the shrine which he then carried throughout his conquests.
		Achilles grew to be the bravest, handsomest and swiftest of the heroes.
		Although Achilles was not a god he was one of the last offspring of a god coupling with a mortal.
	users.bigpond.net.au /bstone/achilles.htm (1718 words)

	Memorable Quotes from Troy (2004)
		Achilles: You're a good student but your not a Mermidan yet, look at these men, they are the fiercest soldiers in all of Greece, each of them has blead for me. You will guard the ship...
		Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I? Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting...
		Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0332452/quotes (2499 words)

	Michigan Academician: A Triptych of Heraldic Shields by Homer, Virgil, and W. H. Auden. (Language & Literature).
		Michigan Academician: A Triptych of Heraldic Shields by Homer, Virgil, and W. Auden.
		Virgil, in The Aeneid, his adaptation of Homer's epic, has Vulcan emblazon on his hero's shield, for the most part, details of wars to come, though Aeneas's mandate is to extend peace throughout the world.
		When Achilles needs a replacement for the shield he has lost to Hector, Hephaistos fabricates one depicting, for the most part, pastoral civilized scenes, though The Iliad is about war.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_hb203/is_200203/ai_hibm1G189148060 (2499 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Search Results Books: Shield
		The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History
		Sword and the Shield, The: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
		The Shield: Notes from the Barn: The Elite Strike Team Files ~ David Jacobs -- (Paperback - March 1, 2004)
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/external-search?tag=scifind0b&keyword=Shield&mode=books-uk (2499 words)

	Third Iliad Chat, Fabularum Bibliotheca 9/20/98
		flavius Horatius : Perhaps the perception that the shield of Achilles does appear to be a trifle out of place, as though it were an interpolation from another source, because it was a favored selection which had more care and attention placed on it by Homer.
		flavius Horatius : Torrey, I doubt that Achilles ever really asked whether the Greeks were fighting for their personal lives: for them it was more a question of acquiring a sense of honor (or time) as opposed to regaining the abducted Helen.
		flavius Horatius : The shield's artwork is particularly apropos for its bearer: the antithesis or juxtaposition of the contrasting elements: war versus peace, urban versus rural, nature versus man.
	www.webwinds.com /thalassa/iliadchat5.htm (2499 words)

	Philip Bobbitt and Sir Michael Howard (John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress)
		Author Philip Bobbitt was joined by Sir Michael Howard, Library of Congress Kluge Center Scholar, in a discussion of Bobbitt's recently published book, The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
		Hailed as "one of the best books of 2002" by the Times Literary Supplement and The Economist, The Shield of Achilles is a classic inquiry into the nature of the nation-state, which developed over five centuries as the optimal institution for waging war and organizing peace.
		Philip Bobbitt and Sir Michael Howard discuss Bobbitt's book "The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History"
	www.loc.gov /loc/kluge/bobbitt.html (281 words)

	Reception Project Template
		The forms of attention brought out in the ecphrasis are the forms of attention encouraged by Homeric song; on this reading, the poetics of the Shield of Achilles are the poetics of the Iliad.' Andrew Sprague Becker, 'The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Homeric Description' American Journal of Philology III (1990), 139-153, p.151.
		The Homeric shield of Achilles serves not only as a model for ecphrasis, the detailed description of a work of art within a literary text, but also, it has been convincingly argued, as a coherent cosmogony which could be alluded to as the act of creation itself.
		It is this seminal ecphrasis, the first attested mirror in the text that reveals the power of the poet 'to proceed to the essential', an art which Aristotle recognised differentiated it from 'the anecdotal method of history'.[
	www2.open.ac.uk /ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/conf96/james.htm (6673 words)

	Perseus Vase: London B 210
		Achilles, Achilles and Penthesilea (or Amazons), branch, chiton, combat, cuirass, Dionysos, Dionysos and Oinopion, falling, fighting, greave, helmet, himation, holding, kantharos, killing, leopardskin, naked, oinochoe, Oinopion, Penthesilea, shield, slaying, spear, sword, vine, wreath
		Penthesilea, falling on one knee, tries in vain to defend herself with her spear; she wears a short chiton and pardalis, a sword and holds a shield.
		He is bearded, and wears a short chiton, greaves, a cuirass, sword, a high-crested helmet and carries a shield.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vaseindex?entry=London+B+210 (260 words)

	Tales of Troy - Chapter 7
		The Cruelty of Achilles, and the Ransoming of Hector
		Patroclus armed himself in the shining armour of Achilles, which all Trojans feared, and leaped into the chariot where Automedon, the squire, had harnessed Xanthus and Balius, two horses that were the children, men said, of the West Wind, and a led horse was harnessed beside them in the side traces.
		On this they laid Patroclus, covered with white linen, and then they slew many cattle, and Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan prisoners of war, meaning to burn them with Patroclus to do him honour.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/fantasy/TalesofTroy/chap7.html (2596 words)

	iliad
		In this Attic red-figure cup (c480 BCE), Hector breaks his spear on Achilles' shield, and Achilles advances with drawn sword--again, different from the ILIAD, where Hector advances with drawn sword and is stabbed by Achilles with a spear in the throat.
		Despite his rage, Achilles is persuaded by his mother, Thetis, to return the body of Hector to Priam in book 24.
		This black-figure Attic amphora (c540 BCE) shows Thetis handing Hephaistos' creation over to Achilles.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/achilles/iliad/iliad.html (2596 words)

	Study Guide for Reading Homer's Iliad
		The new shield of Achilles allows Homer a delineation of normal human life, of which the heroic is an exceptional part.
		Note that Homer generally presents Achilles here through the eyes of others.
		One feature of Homer's genius is how he manages to include events before and after the war through allusion and symbolism.
	www.temple.edu /classics/iliadho.html (2691 words)

	iliad
		In this Attic red-figure cup (c480 BCE), Hector breaks his spear on Achilles' shield, and Achilles advances with drawn sword--again, different from the ILIAD, where Hector advances with drawn sword and is stabbed by Achilles with a spear in the throat.
		With his new weapons and his rage over the death of Patroclus, Achilles (after being forced by Odysseus in book 19 to accept the gifts promised by Agamemnon) slaughters the Trojans without mercy in books 20 and 21, eventually provoking the river-god Skamander (Xanthus) to attack him.
		In this Attic red-figure Crater (c480 BCE), he wounds Aeneas in the hip (with a spear, not a rock as in the ILIAD), and Aphrodite grabs hold to rescue her son.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/achilles/iliad/iliad.html (2000 words)

	U of M Library Name Resolver Service
		A Dramatic Poem With Homer's "Shield of Achilles", and other Translations from the Greek by Richard Garnett.
		A Dramatic Poem With Homer's"Shield of Achilles", / and other Translations from the Greek by Richard Garnett.
		Availability: Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. Do not export or print from this database without checking the Copyright Conditions to see what is permitted.
	name.umdl.umich.edu /BAY8313 (2000 words)

	The Library of Congress - CyberLC
		The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History
		Phillip Bobbitt and Sir Michael Howard discuss Bobbitt's book "The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History".
		Michael E. Stone, Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, presented a lecture titled “A Hidden Treasure: The Armenian Adam Epic by Arakel of Siwnik."
	www.loc.gov /today/cyberlc/lectures.html (2000 words)

	LAU College of Religion sponsors film making projects in the developing world in places such as Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, and is the home of electronic cinematography and digital film making.
		As asserted by Professor Phillip C. Bobbit in The Shield of Achilles ; See, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History By Philip Bobbitt
		Gran Colombia soon faded into archives of history, but the nations of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador continued to exist as independent republics, and with Bolivia and Peru, today form the Andean Community.
		LAU College of Religion sponsors film making projects in the developing world in places such as Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, and is the home of electronic cinematography and digital film making.
	www.laucolleges.com /project.html (2000 words)

	Results in
		Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), 921 pp., $40.
		A Papier-Mache Fortress - Books - 'The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History' - Book Review
		Bobbit holds that four great epochal wars transformed the dominant constitution of states in previous eras (Habsburg-Valois, the Thirty Years' War, the wars of Louis XIV and the French Revolutionary wars).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2751/is_2002_Winter/ai_95841642 (287 words)

	bobbitt.inc
		Bobbitt, who turns 55 this month, was not doing badly before the release of The Shield of Achilles.
		In his book The Shield of Achilles, released last year to international acclaim, Bobbitt writes: “Epochal wars can embrace several conflicts that were thought to be separate wars by the participants, may comprise periods of apparent peace (even including elaborate peace treaties), and often do not maintain the same lineup of enemies and allies throughout.
		UT law professor Philip Bobbitt says that in hindsight, these were not separate wars at all, but were all battles in one “Long War,” which began in August of 1914 and ended when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990.
	utopia.utexas.edu /articles/alcalde/bobbitt.inc (5552 words)

	An Evening With Philip Bobbitt
		Philip Bobbitt, a constitutional law professor at the University of Texas and a historian of nuclear strategy …drawing on his latest book The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History…offers an answer.
		Bobbitt will be signing Shield of Achilles in the Auditorium lobby from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
		Bobbitt, who holds the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair at UT Law, was formerly the Anderson Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Modern History faculty.
	www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/Events.hom/bobbitt.shtm (229 words)

	Philip Bobbitt from LiveJournal
		Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History 2.
		Philip Chase Bobbitt, "The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History" (2002) 2.
		Manipulation of Hope That last hypocrisy is researched by two Yale scholars, Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt (45) who argue we practice inequality everywhere while pretending to equality (it is so close to our notion of justice).
	www.ljseek.com /search/Philip%20Bobbitt (590 words)

	Fast Forward to 2025 and Beyond by Philip Bobbitt - The Globalist > > Global Society
		Adapted from “The Shield of Achilles” by Philip Bobbitt.
		Writing from the perspective of the future in his book “The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History,” Philip Bobbitt explores some of these issues — and ponders new ones — that will affect the world during this era.
		Fast Forward to 2025 and Beyond by Philip Bobbitt - The Globalist > > Global Society
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3683 (1209 words)

	NPR : Interview: Professor Philip Bobbitt Discusses the Future of the U.S. Regarding Wars
		HANSEN: Philip Bobbitt reading Czeslaw Milosz's poem "Preparation." Philip Bobbitt is the author of "The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History," published by Knopf.
		Earlier this year, Philip Bobbitt published "The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History." And he is in our London bureau today.
		BOBBITT: In the last decade of the 15th century, the French king Charles VIII came into the Italian plain with mobile artillery.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesun/transcripts/2002/aug/020818.bobbitt.html (1324 words)

	Perseus Lookup Tool
		A patronymic used of any descendant of Aeacus (q.v.), such as Peleus, Telamon, Phocus, Achilles (q.v.), Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, and Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, who claimed descent from Achilles.
		Telamon is naked except for greaves and a Corinthian helmet, and holds a spear in his right arm and a Boeotian shield on his left.
		The traditional founder was Teukros, son of Telamon, king of the Greek island of Salamis and one of the heroes of the Trojan War.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?target=en,1&collection=Any&lookup=Telamon&formentry=1&template=&searchText=&alts=1&extern=1&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0002;2394;65535&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062;1576;13130675&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0039;923;817026&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0040;1139;1928164&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004;4048;5806160&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0048;918;124462&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0041;924;4501079&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0042;919;331721&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043;965;4817651&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0054;2031;2570557&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006;5253;9153903&group=work&.cgifields=alts&.cgifields=group&.cgifields=extern&.cgifields=type (303 words)

	Part I. Chapter XVII. Padraic Colum 1918. The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
		Achilles put his shining armour upon him and it fitted him as though it were wings; he put the wonderful shield before him and he took in his hands the great spear that Cheiron the Centaur had given to Peleus his father—that spear that no one else but Achilles could wield.
		Then as he mounted his chariot Achilles spoke to the horses.
		He bade his charioteer harness the immortal horses Xanthos and Balios.
	www.bartleby.com /75/17.html (813 words)

	Hesiod's <i>Works and Days</i>
		He wrote three works-the Theogony, the Works and Days, the Catalog of Women (fragmentary), and possibly a poem called the Shield, which describes the shield of Hercules, and is clearly based on the description of the shield of Achilles from Iliad 18.
		DAYS (382 to the end of the work) (the second half of the Works and Days, so-called because it has prescriptions for when to do certain tasks):
		The Catalog of Women, also called the the Ehoien ("or the woman who") which is a title taken from the frequently repeated introduction of a new woman with the words "or the woman who," builds on the end of the Theogony and attempts to do for heroes what the Theogony does for the gods.
	www.uvm.edu /~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/hesiodworksanddays.html (594 words)

	Diabloii.net Guest Articles
		This deity was also a blacksmith, and made many miraculous items, including a complete set of armour for Achilles.
		He is, I assume, based on Hephaestos, the Greek god of fire.
		Somebody knew enough to associate Medusa with the aegis and to draw a shield with tassels and fearsome faces, but the tassels and the faces got put on completely the wrong shield, and Medusa's Gaze ended up with the same artwork as the Sigon set shield.
	diabloii.net /columnists/a-d2-classics.shtml (1263 words)

	The Iliad of Homer - BOOK VII
		And Aias came near bearing his tower-like shield of bronze, with sevenfold ox-hide, and stood near to Hector, and spake to him threatening: "Hector, now verily shalt thou well know, man to man, what manner of princes the Danaans likewise have among them, even after Achilles, render of men, the lion-hearted.
		He spake, and poised his far-shadowing spear, and hurled and smote Aias' dread shield of sevenfold hide upon the uttermost bronze, the eighth layer that was thereon.
		Then heaven-sprung Aias hurled next his far-shadowing spear, and smote upon the circle of the shield of Priam's son.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Iliad/00000019.htm (3355 words)

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