When reading this passage, one can almost feel their teeth savagely crunching down every individual word, like the lion’s teeth crunches on the deer meat, as the mouth theatrically speaks the text in an attempt to savor it. For the speaker of these words, and the lion, every word is like a slow but rough chew, that when the reader is exposed to this text, like the shivering doe, begins to feel imminent danger lurking. One almost feels unified with the sublime element of nature in the language written, since it is trying to draw a parallel between humans and animals, as the behavior of the Trojans is mirrored by the comportment of the doe. The intricate evolvement of the language in this simile evokes a sensation of fear. Here, in Agamemnon's aristeia, one can feel the palpable fear in the hearts of the Trojans. No, the weapon in this passage is not the sword or the spear, it is terror. The Trojans, like innocent deer are watching this scene go on before their eyes, like a ferocious predator and prey scene one would now watch on National Geographic.…show more content… Homer could not find a more complex, yet brilliant way to illustrate the bloodthirstiness of the Greeks, in particular Agamemnon, than with the comparison of a ferocious lion. In that moment of aristeia, Agamemnon loses any sense of humanity and becomes a ruthless being who acquiesces to his animalistic nature. The king of kings enters into the state of nature, where self-preservation is vital, even at the cost of other lives. The king of kings here most resembles the description of the devil in 1 Peter 5:8 who is “prowling like a lion, looking for someone to devour.” In this infinite moment of interminable glory, Agamemnon is eradicating the Trojan warriors, as they with doe eyes, run away from him, before they get maimed by his ravaging fury, like a deer in
