I discovered after months of being in California that my friends there thought I was saying "I can't be asked" every time I told them I couldn't be arsed to do something.
Hero coming from the PIE root *ser- (protect) actually makes sense, given that 90% of the greek words that start with an aspirate h- come from PIE words with an initial s-. Examples are sept- for seven, which became hepta in greek. Or PIE seh-uel that became helios (sol, sun).
As a final note, I don't think Agamemnon is presented in the epic poems as self-centred, quite the opposite. He is torn between being a father and a leader, but in the end he makes the ultimate sacrifice of killing his daughter in order to perform his duty as a leader. Besides, if he didn't do it, it would have been a very ahort and boring poem.
I don’t understand the question ‘We did all the heroes go?’. Is it a typo? Shouldn’t it say ‘Where did all the heroes go?’ I’m very confused.
Mr Cockup came to visit, Teresa. Typo now corrected.
I discovered after months of being in California that my friends there thought I was saying "I can't be asked" every time I told them I couldn't be arsed to do something.
Dumb askers.
Hero coming from the PIE root *ser- (protect) actually makes sense, given that 90% of the greek words that start with an aspirate h- come from PIE words with an initial s-. Examples are sept- for seven, which became hepta in greek. Or PIE seh-uel that became helios (sol, sun).
As a final note, I don't think Agamemnon is presented in the epic poems as self-centred, quite the opposite. He is torn between being a father and a leader, but in the end he makes the ultimate sacrifice of killing his daughter in order to perform his duty as a leader. Besides, if he didn't do it, it would have been a very ahort and boring poem.