'Agamemnon and the Iliad'

'Today, we have a tendency to hold back distinguishments in a representation that is substantially dichotomous with the distinguishments make in the cultures sooner us, such as that portrayed by Homer in the Iliad. Whereas we test transcendency oer previous cultures, said cultures be often englut with community want and claiming favourable vex over different people in their protest era. Often, this tendency of the sr. cultures is a root word we inherit our superiority from. As I see it, our cultures argon non as distinguishable as is popular to believe. This position is perhaps most(prenominal) accepted in the episode side by side(p) a see of Book foursome in the Iliad, chase the Trojan Pandarus failed assassination attempt of Menelaus. Here, Agamemnon, espial the curtailed pride and forthwith loss the Achaeans would baptistry if they were to idle following the incident, embarks on a short commission to affirm the state of fights duration and rile the ar my. In the ensuing dialogue, robust evidence, both all-important(a) and minor, is epitomized to display our cultures similarities in terms of leadership, policy-making rhetoric, meritocracy, and commonplace language.\n identical the image we conceive of infamous air force officer such as Robert E. Lee and Erwin Rommel, Agamemnon acts in a way in which no tendency toward indolence or cowardliness could be detected. (IV. 241). Furthermore, genus Nestor, an elderly commander, commits an arguably meanspirited action when he arranges his army So that willing or not they would be forced to constrict (IV. 321). It seems plausible that, though never a general, Harry Truman was endorsing Nestors actions when he purportedly retorted that A leader is a man who has the king to get other people to do what they dont want to do, and similar it. Bolstering the parallel, President Truman served as commander in chief of the coupled States during World war Twos conclusion. Like Nestor, Tru man did not partake in any of the war he commanded. though we constantly seek to detect a dichotomy be...'