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I always thought it a little ironic that the war with Troy brought no one any good. Agamemnon got killed rather disrespectfully. Diomedes was driven from his land when he came home. Achiles and Ajas and many more died. It took Odysseus (Ulysses) 20 years to get home again. It's pretty obvious that Priamus and his family didn't get anything good out of it etc.....If the iliad teaches one lesson I think it is that in war there are only losers.
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11-20-2002, 07:12 PM | #22 | |
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It isn't that Homer's heroes died: it is how they individually lived and fought and died that we hold so dear to our hearts. And certainly they would do it all over again without regret, if they knew it would make their names famous even several thousands of years later. The interesting truth about humanity is that most of us will always embrace a Homer over a Siegfried Sassoon (see http://www.bartleby.com/people/Sassoon.html ). Quote:
No, give me a 'historian' like Homer or Tolkien, whose lies rather bring us face to face with that part of our actual history we are unable to face directly: its truth, base as well as noble, in ourselves.
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