Most fights or battles take place because two people can’t agree on something. That was the case when Homer wrote the Iliad and that is still the case today. In Book 1 Achilles and Agamemnon can’t agree on whether or not to give the two captive women back or to keep them, which in the end leads to an argument. As stated by Agamemnon on page 83, “You are nothing to me- you and your overweening anger! But let this be my warning on your way:…I will be there in persons at your tents to take Briseis in all her beauty, your own prize- so you can learn just how much greater I am than you and the next man up may shrink from matching words with me, from hoping to rival Agamemnon strength for strength!” From this statement we can see how angry and violent Agamemnon is. At this point in the book there is no actual violent action taken by Agamemnon toward Achilles, but the linguistic violence is leading up to it. As you can see from the provided excerpt, Agamemnon shows us another form of violence, linguistic
Most fights or battles take place because two people can’t agree on something. That was the case when Homer wrote the Iliad and that is still the case today. In Book 1 Achilles and Agamemnon can’t agree on whether or not to give the two captive women back or to keep them, which in the end leads to an argument. As stated by Agamemnon on page 83, “You are nothing to me- you and your overweening anger! But let this be my warning on your way:…I will be there in persons at your tents to take Briseis in all her beauty, your own prize- so you can learn just how much greater I am than you and the next man up may shrink from matching words with me, from hoping to rival Agamemnon strength for strength!” From this statement we can see how angry and violent Agamemnon is. At this point in the book there is no actual violent action taken by Agamemnon toward Achilles, but the linguistic violence is leading up to it. As you can see from the provided excerpt, Agamemnon shows us another form of violence, linguistic