Here’s what the story of Achilles teaches me, is that, if you’re

shit thread die teen

>>10013189
think about what the story would be like if he wore a protective shoe.. Not that interesting.

Being almost invincible leaves a mark on his personality. He thinks nobody can defeat him, hence the sandals. Pros in their own fields of expertise also often avoid wearing protective suits or neglect safety standards.

>>10013189
It wouldn't have mattered if he wore a big boot. Death was his destiny and the arrow was guided by the Gods

Thetis of the silver-foot btfo

OP is just copying a louis ck routine.

>goddess or whatever is dunking him in holy water to make him invincible
>didn't think about doing it a second time to get sure to cover every body part
roman """gods"""

>>10013568
greek gods.

The story was just a way to explain why it hurts so fucking much when someone hits that tendon.

>>10013574
didn't the wife of zeus transformed a harmless woman into a horrifying monster lamia, because she was "too pretty" and might steal zeus away? what was she supposed to do, say no to the highest god? greek gods are seriously evil through and through. or sysiphus who got punished by eternal hell for bringing fire into the human world and helping them evolve? or gods that attacked odysseus for defending himself against this ugly cyclops that tried to eat him? greek gods are messed the fuck up.

>>10013189
theres so much more to Achilles' story you fucking brainlet

>>10013189

>doesn't understand how tragedy works (read Aristotle's Poetics)
>doesn't understand that Achilles willfully and knowingly marched into his death (Read Plato's Symposium)
>tries like a retard to force the anachronisms of modernity on ancient tragedy (Read Kierkegaard's The Tragic in Ancient Drama Reflected in the Tragic in Modern Drama)

>>10013590
all gods are messed the fuck up. It's in their "nature". They're beyond our human logic.

>>10013590
>greek gods are messed the fuck up.
shit post but thats kind of the point
read prometheus bound

>>10013590
>>>goodreads
Fuck off and die

>>10013606
>>10013610
>>10013613
>mfw
https://www.google.de/search?q=kratos&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7wsXm5J_WAhVHYlAKHTFnA1AQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=913#imgrc=3kM62vvb47v9-M:

his parents hated him, I don't think you ever read what all of the things he did meant. Are you aware of what a tragic greek hero is? Because if they're on their parents would do everything they could to kill them. In the Odessey he didn't gain those powers till the very end, and when he was amde to fight Ares he lost when Ares sliced him with a single samurai slash from his katana.

>>10013614
Shit series.

>>10013189
fuck off

>>10013189
Who dies from an arrow to the heel anyways?

>>10014604
Anyone without access to antiseptics.

>>10013615
It's a louis CK bit.

>>10013580
This
It's actually about the importance of that tendon. Because back in the day if you snapped that you were fucking dead.

>>10013590

The lesson is don't fuck with Hera.

>>10013189
The Greek "gods" can't do shit when fate has spoken. Ananke is the true Greek God.

Where is this myth located in ancient literature? Certainly not the Iliad

>>10015315

It's in the Metamorphoses

>>10013590
Prometheus got punished for bringing fire, and not in hell but just on some rock somewhere, Sisyphus was just a clever cunt.
and gods arent evil, they just dont care that much about one or two human lives unless they really like the hero

>>10013590
bait

>>10015323
>roman fan-fiction

>>10013189
Wow she did so much, she dipped him in a fucking magic water, so much fucking effort.