(June 1, 2012 at 5:22 am)Epimethean Wrote: This may have been covered somewhere in the thread, but Priam begged Achilles, not Agamemnon, for Hector's body. It's a big difference and a major distinction.
It's probably a simple gaffe. His source is pages 154-155 of this book http://books.google.com/books?id=8JkFqMXX6WAC which might explain the mistake but page 155 isn't available on the preview.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).