CLST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iron Age, Hoplite, Phalanx
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Achilles on his mother, thetis, can see future and recognizes that there are 2 possibilities for achilles" future. He does have a choice to go down one or the other important paths, but once he chooses, the outcome of the choice is no longer choice. It is true that once we make our fundamental choices, the outcomes are determined by the universe/gods; choice is genuinely free. Achilles: if he fights, he will never return home but his glory lives eternally. Or returns home and has long life, but his excellence of glory is gone. Picks glory because he thinks immortality in that regard is much more important. Pindar juxtaposes the mortality of a human being with the arete achieved, Pindar juxtaposes the mortality of a human being with the arete achieved, can lead to honor and even mortality can be sweet due to causes beyond us e. g. god.
