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Episode 5 | The Archetypal Mars

Archetypes and the Planets

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The Love of Achilles

The only way that he's vulnerable is through a heel, he shot through the heel by Paris, and he dies. And yet I always tell people to read the Elliot because there is one scene in the Elliot that kind of humanizes Achilles, and it is through love. He won't give the body back to the father to baby buried because he's so ticked off because Hector has killed his best friend. In that moment, it humanizes Achilles. That we see a sense that you could tell I don't watch too many movies, but the point that he softens up and through an active compassion becomes very human.

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