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When Agamemnon was forced to give up one of his war prizes-a captive girl named Chryseis-he helped himself to one of Achilles' war prizes, the girl Briseis. While the war rages on and the Greeks are faring badly, Achilles sulks in his tent. ... Discuss the question "What is the meaning of sulk in one's tent?"
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During the siege of Troy Agamemnon is forced to give up one of his captives, Briseis, so he decides to take away one of Achilles' captives, Chryseis. For this Achilles decides to sulk in his tent, refusing to fight for the Greeks anymore.
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And Lieutenant Danenhower now perceives more clearly than he then did the light in which Captain De Long then regarded it. But with this feeling Lieutenant Danenhower's conduct was most noble. He did not, like Achilles, sulk in his tent at the fancied indignity.
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Petersen would’ve been better off leaving the oration to Cox, O’Toole, and Bana while letting Achilles sulk in his tent with his slave girl – a sub-plot that adds little to the film except to offer a few more shots of Pitt’s bare ass.
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In the heydays of Reagan and the warm afterglow of Bush the Elder, all three could put their differences aside because the levers of government were new and exciting after the long Democratic dominance of the New Deal and Post-War years. ... Instead, one faction will decide, like Achilles, to sulk in its tent, or perhaps,
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As Jackson had strict ideas of military discipline, he would not criticise his superiors, and, although the order to fall back was a disappointment, he did not, like Achilles, sulk in his tent. But a letter he wrote at the time to his wife, read between the lines, ... His line of battle would have been several miles long.
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agamemnon WAS an asshole -- guy sacrificed his youngest daughter just to get the winds blowing again so he could have his war -- he's a raging tyrant, a jerk, and of course it's his picking a fight with achilles at the start that sends achilles into a sulk in his tent for most of the Iliad until Patroclus gets killed...
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In your shoes, my boy, I would fail immediately.” Without quite standing up, he reached out his extraordinarily long arm and groped for the knob on the door.
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Like Achilles, she will sulk in her tent... hoping that, like Achilles, she will be begged to come back and lead the dems to victory. Oh, but then there is the heel. That famous heel. No, I prefer hope. ... It appears that the long history of ethnic and religious diversity in the United States has produced a distinctive,
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