April 07, 2021

Ars Politica - Ep21: The Iliad, 5-9

1 hour 11 minutes

Books 5-9 - First Turning Point
Book V: Diomedes Fights the Gods
Aristeia
(book 6) Glaukos and Diomedes - two enemies, two guest-friends, ancestry and kinship bind beyond political interests.
Book VI: Hector and Andromache
Male/Female dynamics: Achilles/Briseis, Hector/Andromache, Paris/Helen
Male tenderness, husbandman, father, countryman, duty before self
Book VII: Ajax against Hector
Book VIII: The Trojans at the Wall
Book IX: The Embassy to Achilles
Greeks are losing. Realize they must do something. Seek Achilles.
Achilles rejects reason, family, friends, tradition, decency, society, and the cosmos.

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By Stephen Wolfe

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April 07, 2021

1 hour 11 minutes

Books 5-9 - First Turning Point
Book V: Diomedes Fights the Gods
Aristeia
(book 6) Glaukos and Diomedes - two enemies, two guest-friends, ancestry and kinship bind beyond political interests.
Book VI: Hector and Andromache
Male/Female dynamics: Achilles/Briseis, Hector/Andromache, Paris/Helen
Male tenderness, husbandman, father, countryman, duty before self
Book VII: Ajax against Hector
Book VIII: The Trojans at the Wall
Book IX: The Embassy to Achilles
Greeks are losing. Realize they must do something. Seek Achilles.
Achilles rejects reason, family, friends, tradition, decency, society, and the cosmos.

...more