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the Iliad.In the quarrel with Agamemnon at the opening of the Iliad, Achillescannot endure the insult inflicted upon him by Agamemnon andimmediately withdraws from battle in great an
Similar motivations drove the protagonists to defeat their enemies and cure an insult.
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§ 342Further, world history is not the verdict of mere might, i.e. the abstract and non-rationalinevitability of a blind destiny. On the contrary, since mind is implicitly and actually reason, andreason is explicit to itself in mind as knowledge, world history is the necessary development, out ofthe concept of mind’s freedom alone, of the moments of reason and so of the self-consciousness andfreedom of mind. This development is the interpretation and actualisation of the universal mind.
I can't help but think of Hegel's philosophy of history whenever anything remotely historical comes up including Aeschylus's The Persians.
My understanding of Hegel is that people and objects, as understood in the sciences of organic and inorganic chemistry, are rational in the sense of being known and predictable in the case of objects and practical goal driven and self determining in the case of people and that history is the maturation of the self conception of the world.
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The god Apollo, enamored of her, granted her the power of prophecy but, when she rejected him, sabotaged that power with a curse that no one would believe her predictions.
I was reminded of Cassandra when I saw Hiranyakashipu trying in vain to avoid his death that would eventually come to him at the hands of Narasimha Avatar.
I think what both stories share is a divine character making a promise to the hero about the future and there's nothing either character can do to stop or affect the promised future.
The sage who was warned about the flood by the Matsya Avatar also couldn't avoid his fate but knowingly enacted it.
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