... to take place (2.35-36). Secondly, Agamemnon was selfish. To Chryses, Agamemnon said "The girl I will not give back; sooner will old age come upon her in my own house, in Argos, far from her own land, going up and down by loom and being in my bed as my companion" (1.29-31). To Achilles and the rest of ... -120). Even when his people were being killed by Apollo, Agamemnon still held onto his prize. Not only was he unwilling to give his own prize up to stop Apollo's slaughter, but he also wanted to have someone else's prize. Agamemnon could not stand losses even if it was his prize that br...

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... be huge and deadly. The epic poems [i.e., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] do not really question Achilles' right to bring destruction on the Greek army to avenge Agamemnon's insults, nor Odysseus' slaughter of the entire younger generation of the Ithacan aristocracy. Sophocles' Ajax sees nothing wrong in his attempt to kill the commanders of the army for denying him the armor of ... him (368) to gain time. Aegeus is tricked into promising her asylum in Athens: tricked is the word, for if he had realized that she intended to destroy the royal house of Corinth and her own children, he would ne...

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... Achilles' armor, the momentum of the battle shifts entirely to the Achaens' side all because the Trojans think that Achilles is the man behind the armor. Patroclus goes on to slaughter Trojans all over the place not just because he is a good fighter, but because of the intimidation he has wearing Achilles' armor. As previously mentioned, possessions in the Odyssey are ... her bridal bed. When Odysseus suddenly flares up at her saying that their bed is immovable, explaining it is built from the trunk of an olive tree around which the house had been constructed, she immediately knows it i...

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