Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond by Richard Kerr Holway (Paperback, 2011)

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Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic, glory-seeking ancient Greek cultures. Not only aggression but knowledge of sacrificial parenting must be purged. The epic represents in displaced form destructive mother-son and father-daughter liaisons and resulting strife within and between generations.