Iphigeneia

When Agamemnon was put in command he dropped all the friends he didn't need, and shut himself in. He got what he wanted, and didn't care about those around him that may have helped him. In this way he wants to be thought superior, and wont associate with any lesser people. Menelaos tries to be the bigger person and tells Agamemnon not to kill his child for his sake, making it seem like he's doing him a favor. Clytemnestra wants to be there for her daughter's supposed wedding, She wants to be the one to raise the bridal torch, and plan the wedding, unaware that there is no marriage at all. Also, she gives Agamemnon a guilt trip about how he killed her last husband, and how she learned to love him and bore 3 children for him. She thinks it is cruel to take one of them away from her. Achilles finds out what is going on and says that since they have been treated very cruelly and to be proper he is going to make sure no harm comes to them. He does not want to be used in Agamemnon's manipulations. Iphigeneia learns about the real reason she is sent for, and in the end says that she is ready to die for the people of Greece because they have turned to her for help.

Philotimia is a major part of human nature in this day and age. There is an never-ending battle for power in the world. Everyone wants to have more than the next person, which leads to tactless decisions motivated by the urge to be superior. Though motivation has altered some from the ancient Greece, the main point is still there. Now people want to have all the money and power, and that is how they view themselves being superior. An example would be the leading companies in the country right now. Their main motivation is to be number one among their competitors.

Peloponnesians, the character of the country from which we have come, one which has always owed its freedom to valour, and the fact that you are Dorians and the enemy you are about to fight Ionians, whom you are accustomed to beat, are things that do not need further comment. But the plan of attack that I propose to pursue, this it is as well to explain, in order that the fact of our adventuring with a part instead of with the whole of our forces may not damp your courage by the apparent disadvantage at which it places you. I imagine it is the poor opinion that he has of us, and the fact that he has no idea of any one coming out to engage him, that has made the enemy march up to the place and carelessly look about him as he is doing, without noticing us. But the most successful soldier will always be the man who most happily detects