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Resentment

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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Jiang's reading of Achilles' motivation inside the Iliad plot.

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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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Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield

2025-11-06, day precision · claims

Reading

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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