Perspectives of War: Ancient Greece and Today

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July 17, 2015

 

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However, violence was still seen as controversial. For example, in Book I, line 187, King Agamemnon says to the war hero Achilles, “You actually like fighting and war…”, showing that violence and war are not common place pleasures. Thomas Palaima, a professor of classical studies at the University of Austin-Texas, performed a study and found that the views of violence in soldiers from Vietnam and soldiers from Troy were in fact very similar...
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In today’s society, many scholars believe in the “just-war principles,” a collection of principles that justify whether or not a war is ethical, but many organized religions, such as Christianity, believe violence to be wrong. Such a viewpoint is shared by characters of the Iliad like Briseis, the priestess held captive by Achilles...
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