HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zoophilia, Thersites, Charismatic Authority
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Aristos akhaion (best of the achaeans): value and cultural contradiction in the gods give tangible force to us of our won deliberations structure of command in armies make agency difficult. Iliad: must be commanded, amplifies action to effect individual choices unrelated. How can one woman be the cause of such terrible war: gods excess action competing models of authority, achilles (power) v. agamemnon (traditional) Thesis: poem presents authority with picture not theory. Thersites challenge: unlike achilles" rage, not self-described as hero, we not i, democratic challenge. Iliad cant be champion of democracy: thersites" punished by actual hero odysseus, clubbed by scepter traditional, soldiers laugh solidarity, homer"s values affirm the punishment legitimacy charismatic authority bound to individual agamemnon. Achilles" power: gift of gods said by agamemnon while his own power is legitimate, just because someone is chosen legitimately doesn"t mean they deserve to be chosen. Achilles says to agamemnon: you don"t look around you to social life.
