Ways in which war is NOT glorified in the Iliad
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- Ways in which war is NOT glorified in the Iliad
- Gruesome descriptions of death
- PAGE 283 "The metal point of the spear penetrated under his brain and smashed the white jaw bones ETC"
- Grief over death
- Parents and children/families
- Andromache's and Briseis' families all being killed by war, before Andromache is only left with Hector and Briseis taken away by Achilles.
- Hector leaving Andromache and Astyanax Page 111
- Thetis's distress over Achilles (her sons) destiny Page 331
- PAGE 320 Achilles grief over patroclus
- "Achilles was sobbing out his noble heart"
- PAGE 286 Zeus' grief over his son Sarperdon
- "He did send down a shower of bloody raindrops to the earth in tribute to his dear son"
- Parents and children/families
- Interferance of the gods make the mortals like pawns in a pointless game
- The inhumane fight over bodies
- "The two fought for Cebriones like a pair of lions on the mountain heights, each as hungry and fearless as the other, disputing the dead body of a stag"
- The sheer numbers that are killed
- "Adrestys first. and Autonous and Echeclus; Perimus, Epistor and Melanippus; and then Elasus and Mulius and Pylartes. All these Patroclus killed"
- detailed backstories before deaths
- Aeneas: "So i left and came to Ilium on foot, relying on my archery(...) but if i ever get home again and set eyes on the land of my fathers, my wife and my great house
- homer's input
- "War with all its tears"
- Gruesome descriptions of death
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