I’m a bit late to the game, but have been reading through your Iliad posts and enjoying them very much! Thank you for sharing them! I wanted to respond to this one for a couple of reasons. First off, as an Iraq War veteran, I am fascinated by Agamemnon’s leadership. I write about it in my soon to be published book. I’ve seen good and bad leadership in war and his is a whole third entity. Also, Diomedes is my favorite character and the two interactions between him and Agamemnon you discuss briefly are very interesting to me. He is both so quick to obey yet also so ruffled by the thought of fleeing. There is something there that I feel the Iliad might have done more with. But then he gets injured and we don’t see him again till the funeral games.
I’m a bit late to the game, but have been reading through your Iliad posts and enjoying them very much! Thank you for sharing them! I wanted to respond to this one for a couple of reasons. First off, as an Iraq War veteran, I am fascinated by Agamemnon’s leadership. I write about it in my soon to be published book. I’ve seen good and bad leadership in war and his is a whole third entity. Also, Diomedes is my favorite character and the two interactions between him and Agamemnon you discuss briefly are very interesting to me. He is both so quick to obey yet also so ruffled by the thought of fleeing. There is something there that I feel the Iliad might have done more with. But then he gets injured and we don’t see him again till the funeral games.