HUMA W1123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Iliad, Trojan War, Aristeia
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It almost even blames achilles for all the devastation in the book the trojan war, in terms of the conflict between two men achilleus and agamemnon. In fact, even agamemnon"s vassal is better than him, so agamemnon is rather insecure, while achilles seems very secure in his masculinity: thersites" endless speech is the one that criticized agamemnon and exposed him. Cronos and zeus both ate the people who threatened their power and. Agamemnon and achilleus were both obsessed with their own glorys. Definitions: anthropos: mankind, metis: cunning, thumos: spiritedness, aristeia: demonstration of excellence (root arist think aristocracy, kleos: glory.