![]() The freedom to participate in the struggle and the freedom to desert it guaranteed every man his independence. Similarly the people joined with their princes of their own free will there was no law that could force them behavior was determined only by personal motives, the sense of honor, respect, humility before a more powerful figure, fascination with a hero's courage, and so on. ![]() “Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was that of the heroic Greek period so said Hegel, and he demonstrated it with The Iliad: even though Agamemnon was the prime king, other kings and princes chose freely to join him and, like Achilles, they were free to withdraw from the battle. ![]()
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