Ars Politica - Ep21: The Iliad, 5-9 - a podcast by Stephen Wolfe

Books 5-9 - First Turning Point
Book V: Diomedes Fights the Gods 
Aristeia(book 6) Glaukos and Diomedes - two enemies, two guest-friends, ancestry and kinship bind beyond political interests.
Book VI: Hector and Andromache 
Male/Female dynamics: Achilles/Briseis, Hector/Andromache, Paris/HelenMale tenderness, husbandman, father, countryman, duty before self 
Book VII: Ajax against Hector 
Book VIII: The Trojans at the Wall 
Book IX: The Embassy to AchillesGreeks are losing. Realize they must do something. Seek Achilles. 
Achilles rejects reason, family, friends, tradition, decency, society, and the cosmos.

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