Achilles wants the Greeks to lose badly enough that they beg him to return, so his pursuit of heroic glory is already morally contaminated by resentment.
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Achilles wants the Greeks to lose badly enough that they beg him to return, so his pursuit of heroic glory is already morally contaminated by resentment.
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"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..."
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