HeroesX v07 Hour 01 | Agamemnon in Iliad 1, Kingship, and More @KosmosSociety2024
HeroesX v07 Hour 01 | Agamemnon in Iliad 1, Kingship, and More @KosmosSociety2024
Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
Discussion focusing on the following questions and topics:
In Iliad 1, are we to assume that Agamemnon is a “bad character”?
Can you find in this case any signs of good as well as bad characteristics?
How can modern readers being to think about the role of leaders such as Agamemnon within this poetic tradition?

Recorded in Spring 2017 during v7 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hour 1 and comments and questions from participants.
With Gregory Nagy and Claudia Filos.
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HeroesX v07 Hour 01 | Agamemnon in Iliad 1, Kingship, and More

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