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The Dark Side of Homer Heroes in the Battle of Enyo
Some of the acts committed by homeric heroes, particularly by achilles, are clearly castigated by other characters and gods in the iliad itself. Have you any means of judging how far this was a reflection of the actual experience of greeks at the time? Eh, not so much. In the battle en yo, go into the details of that. But the idea that these were the great virtues, the heroic s, the virtues of courage, could only be tested on battlefields. And we have the dark side because we have achilles blood lust, what's the greek word for it? That's right, came yame and your blood lust.