Pallas functions as Patroclus in the Aeneid's inverted Iliad analogy, giving Aeneas the memory-token that shifts him from pity into rage.
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Pallas functions as Patroclus in the Aeneid's inverted Iliad analogy, giving Aeneas the memory-token that shifts him from pity into rage.
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The Iliad's initiating crisis is not merely military but honor-based: Agamemnon takes Achilles' prize, Achilles refuses to fight, and the Greek army becomes vulnerable.
Athena's intervention is not factual in a literal sense, but it truthfully describes an emotional command that stops Achilles from acting on murderous rage.
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"Aeneas, ferocious in armor, stood there, still, shifting his gaze, and held his sword arm back, holding himself back, too, as Tarnas's words began..."
"Wait, sorry, Pallas, Pallas is the version of Patroclus. Remember how Patroclus died and that enraged Achilles. Well, Pallas is a friend of Aeneas..."
"is that if the girl belongs to a powerful family that family can choose to ransom her back and you have to give her..."
"bad i'm king and so achilles says fine but i will never fight for you ever again i'm gonna let the trojans destroy you..."
"the battlefield so he leads the trojans against the greeks and they're destroying the greeks they're at the point where sorry at the point..."
"...thrust through the ranks and kill Agamemnon now, or check his rage and beat his fury down, okay? So he can't control himself, okay?..."
"...Athena answered. Down from the skies I come to check your rage. If only you will yield. The white -armed goddess Hera sped me..."
"Stop this fighting now. Don't lay hand to sword. Lash him with threats of the price that he will face. And I tell you..."
"So, again, this is not factual. Athena doesn't really exist, but it's truthful in that it gives us insight into how the human brain..."
"are rigging out their galleys gearing to set sail she rages in and she rages in helpless frenzy blazing through the entire city raving..."
"...his own savage grief. Flaring up in fury, terrible in his rage, he cries, decked in the spoils you stripped from when I loved,..."
"...grip of death, not holding back, not checking his words, his rage. You, he cries, you and your vicious crimes. If any power on..."
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