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Pyrrhus' pursuit of Polites rewrites the Iliad: Polites becomes Hector, Pyrrhus replaces Achilles, and the death occurs under the eyes of Priam and Hecuba.
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Polites
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so Pyrrhus is a son of Achilles, okay? So this is a rewriting of the ending of the Iliad, where Priam and Achilles..."
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"Okay, so Pyrrhus is a son of Achilles, okay? So this is a rewriting of the ending of the Iliad, where Priam and Achilles..."
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"...seize him About to run him through And pressing home As Polites reaches his parents And collapses Vomiting out his lifeblood Before their eyes"
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"So again, this is a rewriting of the Iliad where now Polites becomes Hector, right? Because remember, Achilles kills Hector at the gates of..."
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"...I brought Dante here And now he's yours Okay, that's a polite thing to do And this is like not typical of Virgil So..."
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"...they know each other really well. But Virgil is being very polite to him. He's being, he's almost afraid of Cato. Okay? All right...."
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"...that's who I am. I'm I'm like naturally kind of a polite, pleasant person. But then I guess I'm also very ready to be..."
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"...suspects. And I got way listed at Yale, which is a polite way of saying no, because I was a Yale undergraduate. And so..."
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"...useful to them, then they just ignore you. They were very polite. They were charming. But, you know, they were very they basically I..."
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"Suddenly, look, a son of Priam, Polites, just escaped from slaughter at Pyrrhus' hands."
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"...that Japan is not a safe place. It's basically a very polite way of saying like, don't go to Japan because if you go..."
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"...the Canadians really are aware of, really good at is being polite to other people because in a multicultural society you don't want to..."
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