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The poem often started from the middle and moved in many directions to make the story

interesting. Sometimes it took months for one tale to be completed.

The poem would normally be a long narrative, generally about a particular person

important to a culture:

Dearest wife, I too have thought of this, but our people would look upon me with shame if I were to shrink like a coward from battle. My own heart cannot tolerate such behavior. I was taught to be courageous always and to lead the Trojans into battle to win great glory for my father and myself.

Hector is speaking there. He is considered a great person to the Trojans because he is

their hero. He chooses to leave his wife a widow and his son an orphan in order to save

his city. He wants to fight to save other, not only himself.

Discuss the quest for honor as evidence by Hector, Agamemnon, Achilles, & Paris.

Every hero wishes for honor because honor is the most extraordinary prize.

Hector looked for honor from his countrymen. He went to battle knowing that he was

going to die. He did not turn around and run away, he kept his promise to help them to

win the war. This was a sign of arete. Hector wanted to be honored by no one else

except his warrior society.

Paris looked for honor within hubris. The feeling of hubris would lead the hero to

think that he was greater than the heroes who were his peers and that he had the limitless

power that he attributed to the gods. On account of what Paris did for the goddess

Aphrodite, he thinks that he is a gift to the world. Paris thinks that he is better than

the other heroes. He causes trouble and doesn t even have to fight his own battles,

he has his warriors there for that.

Agamemnon was interested in nothing but materialistic honor. He wanted the

best prizes, the best respect, the best of everything. His didn t care much about anything.

That is what made him so different from all of the other heroes. He worshiped

materialistic things, and everyone else worshiped honor that you cannot see.

Achilles found honor within ate, which means blind, rash behavior. Ate

would eventually lead to retribution, or nemesis. The gods would sometimes punish the

hero directly; sometimes other human beings would punish him. He wanted the people

of Greece to bow down to him. He wanted to hear the people say that they needed his

help. He wanted to hear that they needed him, and that is why he stayed out of the war.

He wanted to hear that the people needed him. To Achilles that meant that his people

honored him.

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