1. Honor and Justice
Death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no man can elude him: therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves, or yield it to another.
RGH 1G1, ‘Warrior Ideal’
He wrought also two cities, fair to see and busy with the hum of men. In the one were weddings and wedding-feasts ... About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armor’
RGH 1C1, ‘Shield of Achilles’I will of my own accord give up the mare that I have won, and if you claim any further chattel from my own possessions, I would rather yield it to you, at once, than fall from your good graces henceforth, and do wrong in the sight of heaven.”
RGH 2C2, ‘Heroic Athletics’
Discuss the place of timeh (honor) in the Mycenaean kingdom and the Hellenic polis as evidenced in our readings from Homer’s Iliad.
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