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The customary act by which Priam seeks Hector's body back; Jiang contrasts a practical ransom with Homer's divine mediation.
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ransom
The customary act by which Priam seeks Hector's body back; Jiang contrasts a practical ransom with Homer's divine mediation.
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"...declare to her my solemn sound decree Achilles must receive a ransom from Queen Priam Achilles must give Hector's body back okay does that..."
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"...Greek camp and Agamemnon agrees that it is Priam's right to ransom back his son as is the custom of war and after the..."
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"...you know, if they think they can hold America to economic ransom, it is highly likely, given the history of this 47 -year regime,..."
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"...battle and at this point he should return hector's body for ransom to the trojans so the trojans can bury him but instead achilles..."
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"...he was allowed to go home after the government paid a ransom. Okay? That's what happened in real life. But in the movie what..."
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"...now, to win him back from you. I bring a priceless ransom. Revere the gods, Achilles. Pity me in my own right. Remember your..."
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"...argument because Agamemnon stole, kidnapped a girl. The father demanded to ransom her back. Agamemnon broke the rules of war, of piracy, and said,..."
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"...us, it's because he, sorry, when Jesus died, it was to ransom us from the devil. So now we are slaves to Jesus. And..."
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"...die okay does that make sense so this is called a ransom theory and this is how during danny's time most people understood why..."
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"...girl belongs to a powerful family that family can choose to ransom her back and you have to give her back okay now it..."
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"...for racketeering, counterfeiting, robberies, and kidnapping children of wealthy figures for ransom. He's the main financier of the Bolshevik party. Without him, there'd be..."
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"...Montezuma, and held him as a captive, okay? They wanted a ransom. They couldn't get the ransom, so they killed him. And then very..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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