What did you learn from the Iliad?
I just finished it and the only lesson I could really get from it is the danger of Pride.
Lessons from the Iliad?
John Evans
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Levi Jones
That sums it about right
Daniel Gray
Love the trips.
I learned I was a pussy ass bitchboy who needed to grow the fuck up, become a man and learn that comfort is for children, women and old men.
Aiden Howard
I've always found Achilles to be a super compelling character. Eternal fame and death or life and a forgotten name?
Nicholas Perez
Consider the following:
>Agamemnon is the villain of the story.
>Both Hector and Achilles are heroic figures
Alexander Powell
I think the Iliad provides us with an insight into the mind of the 2 heroes who are opposing each other.
The motivation of Achilles is blind revenge for his dead friend. Revenge as a motivation to fight is a common one, in the battle of Stalingrad there is a diary excerpt which says
"we fight to revenge our comrades and our own eventual death"
The motivation of Hector is to protect his native land - another common motivation found in war.
Men die in order that those helpless family members may live - it is an altruistic motive.
The denominating motivation of all the champions is that of glory. Pride is such an interesting Human characteristic.
When Hector is standing outside the Gates of Troy waiting to clash with Achilles he is terrified but what makes him stand his ground is the fear of criticism by his comrades.
He would rather fight and die than be called a Coward. And that has been observed throughout mankinds history.
The approval of others and fear of negative opinion has lead many men down into the soil.
Robert Garcia
>I have to die if I want my name to be eternal
>also literally everyone else of moderate importance will be remembered alongside me anyways
Always makes me chuckle
Andrew Thomas
Everyone who isn't retarded understood this already
Christian Morris
Well he regrets his fate in the odyssey
Eli Thomas
What about Odysseus, he survived the war, fucked his way back home and had a saga with his name on it to live forever.
Also, I always found Achilles to be such a cry-baby, simply with cheatmode on since his mother was a thot for Zeus, therefore is Odysseus the real patrician's choice.