Action, attitude, value and context in the text of the Iliad

Abstract

The Iliad is a masterpiece of Western culture and a source of meaning for the clarification of human communication. The study of the poem has focused on an analysis based on the referential meaning of the value concepts, eliding the conversational background from which they emerge and acquire meaning. In this article, this background is studied through an amalgamation of discursive psychology and the psychology of world visions. With the discursive action model, speech acts, attitudes, values and contexts displayed by the characters in conversational sequences god-god, hero-hero and god-hero are analyzed. It was found that there is a prevalence of direct executive and behavioral speech patterns, active objective attitudes, individualistic competitive values and contradiction contexts. With this approach, a new vitality is given to the conceptual study of the Homeric poem and new studies are projected.