... 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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... them. War, in contrast, though seemingly exists to destroy human compacts and governments, may in fact create a bond between two people that can be intensified by the horrific and senseless slaughter in its wake. However, a bond based on such a problematic foundation is bound to self-destruct, in the same way that a marriage collapses when the people it binds are fundamentally dysfunctional ... of civilized culture. This is, however, a desire to fulfill his primal instinct of greed; even if he is telling the truth and that he merely wishes economic security for his house, he still is so...

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