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Friedrich Engels

“The bourgeoisie have raised monuments to the classics. If they’d read them, they’d have burned them.”

- Friedrich Engels
Thersites: Anti-War Agitator

Thersites: Anti-War Agitator

Posted on Nov 23, 2021 in CL4468 Student blog

Thersites might be easily overlooked in the Iliad. In Book 2 he is described as brutish and ugly. [1] But he is a man of action. He stands up to Agamemnon and the other leaders of the Greeks, encouraging his fellow soldiers to stop throwing away their lives for the commanders and some rich man’s […]