It's interesting how a story one plans meticulously can suddenly rise and stride away on its own course, and there is nothing to do but follow and take notes.
While Odysseus is still the master manipulator, Achilles (Ajax's parallel cousin) has suddenly come to full, chilling life with my reading of "Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us" by Robert D Hare. This book explains everything that Achilles did, before and after the events of The Iliad. And that explanation does not flatter him.
From his hiding among the girls to avoid being called by Agamemnon to go to Troy, to his wailing for his mother for help, to his fury over the loss of Briseis and Patroclus, to his death while negotiating a secret peace with the Trojans, all is explained by Dr Hare.
While Odysseus is still the master manipulator, Achilles (Ajax's parallel cousin) has suddenly come to full, chilling life with my reading of "Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us" by Robert D Hare. This book explains everything that Achilles did, before and after the events of The Iliad. And that explanation does not flatter him.
From his hiding among the girls to avoid being called by Agamemnon to go to Troy, to his wailing for his mother for help, to his fury over the loss of Briseis and Patroclus, to his death while negotiating a secret peace with the Trojans, all is explained by Dr Hare.
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