08-15-2010, 02:38 PM
Thank you David!
That is an interesting example.
Are there any examples in the 'Greek' context? Other than the Homeric duels.
Herodotus' account of the 'Battle of Champions' seems suspect (at least to me), why would the two surviving Argives not simply dispatch Othryades and avoid any conflict over who had won? I realize that some questions cannot be answered, but I like asking them anyway. :wink:
That is an interesting example.
Are there any examples in the 'Greek' context? Other than the Homeric duels.
Herodotus' account of the 'Battle of Champions' seems suspect (at least to me), why would the two surviving Argives not simply dispatch Othryades and avoid any conflict over who had won? I realize that some questions cannot be answered, but I like asking them anyway. :wink:
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
