Achilles in Vietnam: combat trauma and the undoing of character

Betrayal of "What's right"

Shrinkage of the social and moral horizon

Grief at the death of a special comrade

Guilt and wrongful substitution

Berserk.

Dishonoring the enemy

What Homer left out

Soldiers' luck and God's will

Reclaiming the Iliad's gods as a metaphor of social power.

The breaking points of moral existence: what breaks?

Healing and tragedy.

PART I: Betrayal of "What's right"

Shrinkage of the social and moral horizon

Grief at the death of a special comrade

Guilt and wrongful substitution

Berserk

PART II: Dishonoring the enemy

What Homer left out

Soldiers' luck and God's will

Reclaiming the Iliad's gods as a metaphor of social power

PART III: The breaking points of moral existence: what breaks?

Healing and tragedy

Conclusion.