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Virgil's final Aeneid battle rewrites the Iliad's Achilles-Hector-Priam pattern by making Turnus, the defeated enemy, beg in Priam's language while Aeneas occupies the victorious position.
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Priam
Virgil's final Aeneid battle rewrites the Iliad's Achilles-Hector-Priam pattern by making Turnus, the defeated enemy, beg in Priam's language while Aeneas occupies the victorious position.
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Virgil reverses the Iliad's Priam by making generosity and openness lead not to moral reconciliation but to Troy's doom.
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The Aeneid turns the Iliad's Priam-Achilles reconciliation into a scene where the son of Achilles destroys his father's moral legacy.
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Jiang reads Priam's speech to Pyrrhus as accusing him of degrading Achilles because Achilles honored the suppliant Priam and returned Hector's body.
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Priam's death negates the Iliad's moral lesson of forgiving one's enemy by making the forgiving old king look foolish and deserving of death.
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Priam's greatness comes from refusing revenge: he kneels to and kisses the hands of the man who killed his sons instead of killing Achilles when he has the chance.
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Priam is the opposite of Agamemnon because he humbles himself before Achilles and asks for forgiveness even though he hates him.
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Imagination is the animating force of the universe: love lets Priam imagine Achilles' love for his father, and that imaginative recognition lets enemies come together.
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"As he hangs back, the fatal spear of Aeneas streaks on, spotting a lucky opening he had flung from a distance, all his might..."
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"some care for a parent's grief can touch you still, I pray you, you had such a father in old Antris, pity Adonis in..."
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"...that to beg for mercy, Tarnas basically uses the words of Priam from the Iliad, right? Remember what Priam says to Achilles is, I've..."
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"...to suffer. He wept and won his life, our pity too. Priam takes command, has him freed from the ropes and chains that bind..."
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"Whoever you are, from now on, you've lost the Greeks. Put them out of your mind and you'll be one of us. But answer..."
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"Okay, so again, this reminds us of the Iliad, where Priam the king of the Trojans is known for being a very generous, benevolent,..."
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"...this is a rewriting of the ending of the Iliad, where Priam and Achilles have this great emotional battle where they forgive each other,..."
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"At that, Priam, trapped in the grip of death, not holding back, not checking his words, his rage. You, he cries, you and your..."
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"Okay, so again, he is reminding us of the ending of the Iliad where in this great war, peace and love come to universe..."
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"...quaking, slithering on through slicks of his son's blood, and twisting Priam's hair in his left hand, his right hand sweeping forth his sword,..."
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"...because they are a bloodthirsty people, all right, all right, so Priam is dead, and with its death, what it is doing is negating..."
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"...kissed his hands, those terrible, man -killing hands that has slaughtered Priam's many sons in battle."
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