[HIST 2850] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 63 pages long Study Guide!
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Greeks thought it to be not honourable/unmanly. Bows regard as sniper: to kill someone with a bow was seen as feminine and not masculine like killing someone up close. Philoctetes killed paris with a bow: appropriate death as he killed achilles with a bow. Hele(cid:374)(cid:859)s hus(cid:271)a(cid:374)d t(cid:396)ies to defe(cid:374)d he(cid:396) (cid:271)ut is killed (cid:271)(cid:455) me(cid:374)elaus. Helen defends herself by exposing herself in her naked form to menelaus. Laid her on alter and he cut her throat in front of the army: notion of sacrifice, aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:859)s a(cid:272)t of so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. When in bath, aegisthus put a net over him and killed him. Great battle broke out to save achilles body from falling into the hands of the enemy. Ajax was the one to save achilles body. Out of shame for not being allowed to keep achilles armour, he committed suicide (threw pole into ground then jumped onto it, impaling himself)