The Iliad and the Wisdom of Mourning: How to Live in a World of Collapsing Values

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In this video I explore a response to cultural collapse that can be found in Homer's Iliad. Though the story is ostensibly about rage, ultimately this rage gives way to the wisdom of mourning. The conflict begins with a showdown between Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Greeks, and Agamemnon, the chief ruler. I then examine how the Iliad presents the collapse of three core values of Homeric culture: Marital Virtue, Political Virtue, and Divine Virtue. The video concludes with a consideration of the wisdom of mourning.

The images used in this video are in the public domain. The image of Hera from Pompei is under a CC0 license and can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marriage_of_Zeus_and_Hera_(detail)_Pompeian_Art.jpg