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S03E07: HUM 213 Week 3: The Hero Who Learned to Endure
Title: HUM 213 Week 3: The Hero Who Learned to Endure
Description:Achilles has to choose between a long, forgettable life and a glory that never dies. A thousand years later, persecuted early Christians borrow that same Greek vocabulary of the hero’s contest—and aim it somewhere the old heroes never reached. A single thread pulled from the Aegean civilizations unit, traced into the New Testament.
Keywords/Tags:Aegean civilizations, Bronze Age Greece, Homer, Iliad, Achilles, Greek hero, kleos, nostos, agōn, hypomonē, pathei mathos, Herakles, Paul, 1 Corinthians, Hebrews 12, Polycarp, early…
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