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Homer · 1997
Canon spine row 4. Homer — Iliad. Era: 8th C BCE. Lang: Ancient Greek.
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Glory, grief, and mortality collide as men kill and die for honor while the gods watch, quarrel, and occasionally weep.
mortality
Zeus himself experiences the demands of fate, with its intimate connection to human mortality, as a painful limitation.
I00-RC-018Lord Zeus, God of Dodona… as you have heard my prayer before and did honor me and smite the Achaeans, so now too fulfill my prayer.
I00-RC-233grief
Dogs and birds are going to draw out your body. Killing Patroclus and ripping off his armor, my armor—his avenger was far greater.
I00-RC-307His kinsmen trailed behind, all of them wailing as if he were going to his death, as Priam drove out to ransom Hector.
I00-RC-334I made you what you are, my godlike Achilles, and loved you from my heart… you have to master your proud spirit.
I00-RC-148ambition-and-status
Great Zeus has kept me in the dark after all his promises… I'd raze Ilion's walls before sailing home. It was all a lie.
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