Why does everyone stop in the middle of the fighting to hold long monologues?

Why does everyone stop in the middle of the fighting to hold long monologues?

For example when Aineias shouts to Pandaros to shoot Diomedes who wreaks havoc upon the Trojan lines Pandaros respondes with a speach that takes up almost two pages. He speaks like an old senile man who can't follow a common thread and instead of trying to stop Diomedes he starts to go on about how shit his bow is, that he will destroy it when he gets home and how he wishes that he had a chariot.

Why did Homer have to make his heroes so autistic?

Because it's incredibly primitive storytelling.

because action is for plebs

It’s a time-honored tradition, cf. Dragon Ball Z.

Greeks couldn't into internal monologues and thoughts so they just had them say it out loud

Would you prefer 'mysterious' brooding fuckboys who can't communicate their feelings?

Back in Ancient Greece they had a little thing called "ἈΡΕΤΉ" maybe you'd know it as ARETḖ, or maybe you'd call it HONOUR. Its clear that you don't understand ARETḖ, but Homer did, and he knew it meant being a ἈΝΉΡ, or as you'd call it a MAN. Like a mountain lion growling at a plump heifer before pouncing on it, part of being a MAN is calling your opponent a "ΚΥΩΝ" , y'know a BITCH, for several pages before shoving a spear through his NIPPLE.
If you don't understand it then maybe Sappho is more your style, ΚΥΩΝ.

But the mountain lion don't stand there growling for 5 minutes while the farmer brings out his bow and shoots him.

Talking is a free action.

Because it's literally anime.

Because they're dope as fuck and Hektor wanted to mock the beta cuck greeks who broke their hands fighting Hektor in a single bout

It's meant to be read aloud to an audience. Inner monologues don't work too well when that's the case.

lmao, the reason is this OP.

Barbaric degenerates kill each other with weapons.

True rational gentlemen debate each other until one is so overcome and his argument so destroyed he has a heart attack.

what about killing the other person when you've lost the argument?

It's KLEOS not ARETE

fuck, you're right

>ARETḖ
>honour
>not virtue
kill yourself

I think the issue here is an erroneous view of how ancient battles took place. It's common to think battles were just a constant melee but that couldn't be further from the truth. Think about boxing, there's a reason the rounds are only a few minutes long, and that's because combat is extremely exhausting. Human beings are physically incapable of actually fighting for long periods of time even with frequent breaks.

Additionally people value their lives. They're generally not going to work themselves up to a frenzy and throw themselves onto enemy spears. Actual combat between two masses of humans was relatively rare. The majority of "battles" consisted of groups jeering at each other with occasional skirmishing. With this in mind the Iliad is a more accurate representation of ancient warfare than anything you'll see in contemporary fiction or on TV.

>Why did Homer have to make his heroes so autistic?

It might be you

>tfw i have a bigger dick than a demigod

Videos and stories from world war 2 are more accurate than anything else.

Videos and and stories from WW2 are a more accurate representation of ancient warfare? I thought they stopped using spears by then.

WW2 videos and stories / will help you have a correct opinion about man physical capabilities and make a better hypothesis about ancient warfare if you care so much.
For me warfare essence is just cheat, you can attack weak enemy, you can sabotage enemy just do it - I don't care about anything else.

Chadrakles pls

The Greeks gave all their statues small dinguses because they thought big ones were a sign of stupidity and barbarism. The Celts believed the same, and described one deity as being so incredibly stupid that his dick dragged along the ground and he tripped on it when he walked.

Maybe that's where the BBC meme originated...

A better man might have just admitted that he misread the post but you just doubled down.on the stupid. You're a special one.

fuck off reddit

What does that mean?

>stories from wwii are accurate
jidf pls