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Homer's Iliad, Books 1 and 2 | The New Thinkery Ep. 92

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The Idiod, Book One

Achilles and agamemnon's rage is initiated by a priest. Both of these tears are connected with a sense of their own inability to rectify their situation. And so we have really powerful images of human frailty, both from, you know, a week old priest and from the greatest of heroes,. which suggest a kind of very human horizon that ecaptulates even the peak of excellence.

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