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?
Adam Fisher
Because it's incredibly primitive storytelling.
Anthony King
because action is for plebs
Gabriel Perez
It’s a time-honored tradition, cf. Dragon Ball Z.
Julian Wood
Greeks couldn't into internal monologues and thoughts so they just had them say it out loud
Grayson Sanders
Would you prefer 'mysterious' brooding fuckboys who can't communicate their feelings?
James Nguyen
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.
Jack Gomez
But the mountain lion don't stand there growling for 5 minutes while the farmer brings out his bow and shoots him.
Nolan Sullivan
Talking is a free action.
Angel Howard
Because it's literally anime.
Owen Morris
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
Andrew Reed
It's meant to be read aloud to an audience. Inner monologues don't work too well when that's the case.
Leo Williams
lmao, the reason is this OP.
Isaiah Hughes
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.
Christopher Diaz
what about killing the other person when you've lost the argument?
Ethan Phillips
It's KLEOS not ARETE
Evan Hughes
fuck, you're right
Zachary Morgan
>ARETḖ >honour >not virtue kill yourself
Ryder Ortiz
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.
Ayden Miller
>Why did Homer have to make his heroes so autistic?
It might be you
Aaron Fisher
>tfw i have a bigger dick than a demigod
John Harris
Videos and stories from world war 2 are more accurate than anything else.
Nathan Lopez
Videos and and stories from WW2 are a more accurate representation of ancient warfare? I thought they stopped using spears by then.
Jaxon Cruz
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.
James Clark
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...
Connor Ross
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.