Trials of the Self: Heroic Ordeals in the Epic Tradition

achieved Achilles Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid Ahab Ahab's archetypal Athena authentic Byron cannibal canto character Conrad contrast crew culture Dante Dante's death Dido divine Don Juan doubloon encounters epic episode essential experience father final future goal Heart of Darkness Hell hero hero's heroic Homer horror human Ibid identity Iliad imagination implies individuation Inferno Ishmael Ithaka ivory Jesus journey Juan's Juno Kurtz labyrinthine Latium Marlow Melville Melville's Milton mind Moby Dick Moby-Dick mode monomyth moral mysteries myth mythic narrative nature numinous obsession Odysseus ordeal Pallas Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd Patroclus Penelope Pequod pilgrim poem poet poet's Prelude Queequeg quest reality reflected rite of passage ritual role Roman Rome Satan savage seems self-discovery ship soul spirit Starbuck suggests symbolic tale thee theme thou tion traditional Trojans Troy truth Turnus underworld University Press Virgil vision voyage wandering white whale wilderness Wordsworth