#and the significance of the heroic epithet which knobloch refuses to grant | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

sherbertilluminated · 4 months

Text

Thinking about her again (the way Knobloch introduces Mendelssohn in quasi-Homeric opposition to the absolutism of Frederick II not by highlighting his strength but his disability, turning his life into a physical contradiction to the established, bellicose narrative of 18th-century Prussia)

#im definitely not an expert in #disability studies #at least there's something going on with the significance of not fighting in #the iliad #vs in #herr moses in berlin #and the significance of the heroic epithet which knobloch refuses to grant #frederick ii #friedrich ii #moses mendelssohn #heinz knobloch #homer #classics

4 notes · View notes