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Brought a new dimension that I hadn't picked up on.

Achilles as potential revolutionary - revolutionary sentiments on behalf of natural rights haven't bneen limited only to the days of the Enlightenment or the liberal revolutions of the 17th-19th centuries, even if Achilles was more aristocratic than democratic

Wilson's own recent translation has "and rouse the men," - perhaps reflecting the understanding unfolded by Jenny Strauss Clay.

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I think this is a good possibility. At the very least, Clay and WIlson echoing each other support what I think Hammer and Barker saw too.

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