Re: CHAT deities (was: Minhyan & the goddess of conlangs)

Ray Brown scripsit:

> I that was the point of the Iliad - the futility of war. It's surely not
> the fighting that's main theme of the Iliad (it focuses on only a very
> small part of the Trojan war) - it's the person of Achilles. I find the
> meeting of Priam & Achilles, when Priam comes to ransom the body of
> Hector, very moving.
Indeed.  The _Iliad_ nailed down once and for all (and for the first
time in world literature, AFAWK) that the death of an enemy is still
tragic, not something to rejoice over.

--
John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com  jcowan@reutershealth.com
[T]here is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal to accept Darwin.
Given the very pessimistic conclusions about moral purpose to which his
theory drives us, and given the importance of a sense of moral purpose
in helping us cope with life, a refusal to believe Darwin's theory may
have important survival value. --Ian Johnston

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