I'm Not Like An Agamemnon Stan Or Anything But I Do Kinda Wish People Stopped Portraying His Sacrifice

I'm not like an Agamemnon stan or anything but I do kinda wish people stopped portraying his sacrifice of Iphigenia as being like, him being totally heartless and stuff. Because it's not -- that's the point, right? By forcing him to kill his own daughter, it's giving him a deeply personal stake in the war. It's 'you want to go across the sea to kill people who know nothing and have done nothing? fine. prove it.' It's about him having to commit to war in its entirety, the pain that most of the Achaean forces never will.

Obviously it's a bad thing. And yeah, Clytemnestra deserves to kill him for sacrificing their daughter. But if he didn't care about her, if it didn't tear him up inside to put his own daughter on the altar, why wouldn't he be asked to sacrifice anything else?

If they make an adaptation of the Iliad and they cast someone as Timothée Hal Chalamet to play Paris.

I'll be like :ok you're right, but BUT I DON'T LIKE IT

tfw you join the army and someone else has the same name as you, then the next day everyone starts calling you "Lesser Ajax"

Ok,enough of Heracles groping kids

People will be like I love Greek mythology but I hate everything that involves incest, infidelity, violence, slavery, misogyny, undeserved suffering, questionable relationships, ethically dubious heroes and gods,and morality that is foreign to me.

Yes this is in book 19

And Odysseus doesn't convince Achilles to eat, Achilles wants his whole army to go fight in the morning without eating. Achilles is sad and projects his sadness on all HIS army (the Myrmidons).But Odysseus at least convinced his army to eat. :)

The Iliad is a wonderful epic filled with super cool fight scenes, stealth missions, and gut wrenching sadness, but there’s this one moment that lives in my head rent free for absolutely no reason aside from slight amusement.

Not sure which book(chapter) it is, but there is a scene in which Achilles has completed his mourning over Patroclus, and if I’m not mistaken, Achilles was there for twelve days and did not eat or drink anything. Trust me this is important.

Achilles goes and he tells his mates (Ody, Menelaus, etc) that he’s gonna go out and absolutely rip Hector a new one.

Before he goes out though, Odysseus stops him and I kid you not, for at minimum half a page, our boy Odysseus goes on a whole MONOLOGUE about how important breakfast is, and how Achilles needs to at least have some meat and wine before he tears through the Trojan army and turns Hector into his personal ragdoll.

And if I’m not mistaken, Odysseus actually gets Achilles to eat before he leaves. What a guy, getting Achilles to listen to him.

Now go eat breakfast like Homer intended, dear readers. If the great, swift footed Achilles needs to eat breakfast, so do you.