Odysseus builds persuasive force by moving Achilles through vivid contrasts and time: feast versus desert, present Hector, past Peleus, and future victory, riches, marriage, and Greek glory.
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Poets are prophets because the future speaks to the present through them; divine speech is not confined to chronological time because God is past, future, and present.
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Poets are prophets because the future speaks to the present through them; divine speech is not confined to chronological time because God is past, future, and present.
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"...image. And then he uses imagery to take Achilles to the present. Where Hector is this giant, this god, running around killing all Greeks..."
"...all of Greece. You have treasures and treasures. Think about the present. Think about the present. Think about the past. Think about the future...."
"...The mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurely cast upon the present. They are prophets because the future is speaking to us today, okay?..."
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