Trent Sill and Shane Anderson join us to discuss family worship.

1. Books 16-21 - Second Turning Point
2. The Death of Patroclus
3. Situation for the Greeks is dire. Nestor suggests that Patroclus help the Greeks by asking Achilles for his armor, to pretend that Achilles has returned, giving courage to the men. Achilles tells him not to pursue the Trojans beyond the plain back to their gates. He does anyway. Apollo comes to stop Patroclus, hits and stuns him, knocks his armor off him. A Trojan comes and stabs him, then Hector stabs him to death. 
4. Fight over Patroclus’ Body
5. Trojans fight Greeks for Patroclus’ body. Hector takes the armor off of Patroclus, but the Greeks recover the body and take it back to bury it properly. Homer says that Hector took the “deathless” armor, which is ironic since a man just died in it, indicating that Hector will die soon. 
6. Achilles hears of Patroclus’ death and loses his mind, all he wants to do is kill Hector now. Problem: His mother says that the Fates determined that Achilles will die right after Hector dies. Achilles recognizes that his anger has led to the death of his comrades and his best friend. Gall feeling. But he doesn't give up his anger, he turns it from Agamemnon to Hector. Achilles anger refuses healing, reconciliation. He had the opportunity to do so with Agamemnon’s offer, but he turned it down because the gall and bitterness had become sweet to him. He relished in his hurt. Bitterness digs a hole in your soul. Reconciliation was offered to him but he turned it down, because healing and justice wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted to kill, and now he’s got the opportunity to do it. 
7. New Armor for Achilles
8. Thetis goes to Hephaestus to make armor. The entire cosmos is shown and then two cities: one at war and one at peace, city life, farming, dancing, disputes, wedding ceremonies, the Ocean river encircling the shield.
9. The Quarrel is Ended
10. The issue between AG and AC is finished. 
11. Achilles Leads the Army
12. Returns to battle in fire. 
13. AC has his aristeia. 
14. He’s hunting for Hector. He piles up dead bodies of Trojans. 
15. The Fight at the River

Image of the Shield of Achilles: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Shield-of-Achilles.jpg

Eric Conn's tweet

https://twitter.com/Eric_Conn/status/1394769381503111169?s=20

Women's Suffrage: Size And Scope Of Government

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdf

Gender Gap in Free Speech

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-antisocial-psychologist/202104/the-gender-gap-in-censorship-support

C.S. Lewis: The Four Loves

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Loves-C-S-Lewis/dp/0156329301

C.R. Wiley: Man Of The House

https://www.amazon.com/Man-House-Handbook-Building-Shelter/dp/1532614772

Doug Wilson: Father Hunger

https://www.amazon.com/Father-Hunger-Calls-Their-Families/dp/1595554769

Shakespeare's Sonnets

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnets.html

Ovid's Metamorphoses: Story of King Nisus and his daughter, Scylla (In the show I said the king's name was Midas but I was incorrect.)

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph8.php

Aeneid: Scene where women destroy civil order:

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVII.php#anchor_Toc3086154

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0002.761?view=text;rgn=main

1. Books 10-15 - The Deception of Zeus
2. 10 The Night Raid
3. Grand war turns into personal vendettas and quests for glory.
4. When frontal attacks are stopped, guerrilla warfare ensues
5. Prisoner of war strategies: Dolon tells all too quickly and becomes useless
6. The legitimacy of fighting the unarmed
7. 11-13 Hector pushes the Greeks to their ships
8. Hector’s aristeia
9. Ajax and Hector exchange words
10. 14 Hera tricks Zeus (male/female stereotypes)
11. Agamemnon feels like a failure, wants to flee by night and sail home. Odysseus calls him out. Ag is a humbled man at this point.
12. Hera and Poseidon want to throw the battle in favor of the Greeks. Zeus favors Hector and is also carrying out his promise to Thetis by throwing the battle in favor of the Trojans. Hera, a typical woman, only has one real power: beauty. Zeus, a typical man, only has one real weakness: women. 
13. Are the gods just anthropomorphisms? Humans deified? Emotions abstracted. 
14. Since gods can’t die, they don’t have risks, hence they can’t gain glory. Achilles talks about this in the movie Troy, 2000.
15. 15 The Greeks at Bay (Zeus and Poseidon struggle)
16. Zeus threatens Hera, and Hera promptly obeys her lord. 
17. Zeus and Poseidon disagree about who is in power. 
18. Trojans reach ships once again. Zeus wont’ turn them back until he “sees the glow of the burning ships.”
19. The fleeting glory of life. 

Ray's tweet: https://twitter.com/rayortlund/status/1381776675780841475

Moore's article: https://www.russellmoore.com/2021/04/15/losing-our-religion/

Murray's book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12031563-coming-apart

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

Stephen and Thomas are joined by Timon Cline to for a more in-depth discussion about election sermons and the role of the preacher in public thought during colonial America.

Iliad

1. Books 1-4 - The Anger of Achilles
2. The Homeric Epic: 
3. epic = long, gods, heroes, war, adventure. 
4. Primary cultural texts for ancient civ. 
5. Ed tools, moral framework, proper behavior. 
6. Historical accounts?
7. What it means to be human.
8. Influence on literature, philosophy, theology, art, architecture, politics.
9. Background: gods and goddesses, wedding on Mt. Ida., Rape of Helen, Greeks to honor oaths to Helen’s husband.
10. 1 The Homeric Question
11. The Iliad begins in medias res: “in the middle of the subject.”
12. The Quarrel and the elite warrior ethos
13. Greeks fight for Timé and Kleos - honor and glory. Trojans fight for these and for country, home, hearth.
14. Agamemnon dishonors Achilles, Achilles withdraws
15. Whole story is the result of Achilles’ withdrawal
16. 2 Epic List
17. Historicity verified in archeological digs. 
18. 3 The Duel: 
19. History of the duel.
20. Whole armies represented by individual leaders
21. 4 The Truce Broken: 
22. Covenant made by one top leader binds all beneath him
23. Contrast between ancient and modern value systems

• An Abstract of the Laws of New England, 1641. John Cotton
• The New England Pulpit And The American Revolution
• Political Sermons of the Founding Era