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In reply to radgeekdotcom. Achilles’s animosity for Hector is so excessive that I’m not sure it really qualifies as resentment at all. I think resentment requires the ascription to the resented person of unfairness or mistreatment inspiring…

I wrote this post before coming across Wordsworth’s “Poems on the Naming of Places,” which seems to be another strike against Hart’s claim. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/714909?journalCode=twc LikeLike

I’m not sure there’s any such thing as a “well-motivated insult.” A harsh, justified criticism may come off as insulting, but that’s different from a remark specifically (or exclusively) intended to insult. If unprovoked, …

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Achilles resents the hell out of Hector, because Hector killed his beloved Patroclus. I don’t know whether or not Achilles’ resentment is warranted (the Goddess seems to suggest, at the very least, that it becomes excessive by the end). But…