Saber y conducta : los límites de la actuación individual en "La Ilíada"

Abstract

This study examines sorne character's allusives to the different levels of the individual actions in the Iliad, in the general setting of the human development. The restrictive factors of the human acts are analysed: The Gods, Dike, Moira, Ate and Erinia, The Fate and, finally, the ethical behaviour of a society inserted inside the values of The Honour, The Prestige and the Kalos Thanatos: the culminant moment in the life. The human being, in spite of these unavoidables restrictions, can make sorne kind of distinctions between his own actions and the acts belonging to a supranatural intervention. So then, the constant interconnection between the feelings, the human development and the divine resolution is, for the homeric man, a true Knowledge. And logically, moreover, if something is not knowledge is not a part of the character and arise from outside the man