narrative is not itself moral thought. Homer’s Achilles is simply Achilles, his Hector simply Hector. If as we read we say, “As were Achilles and Hector, so are we!” moral thought has taken over from narrative. It arises at the tipping-point between narrative and self-awareness. We can own, or we can deny, that we, too, like Hector and Achilles, are actors. To deny it, we need only curl up with a book and become literary critics, historians, or sociobiologists. The motives which Homer attributes