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	Thersites, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Thersites was of measureless speech and lame in one foot.
		And Thersites, who being engaged in his conspiracies, missed two big wars, came, for one or another reason, to the third and biggest of all: the Trojan War.
		Thersites, who as a pastime used to play dice with Palamedes, the same man whom the Achaeans accused of being a traitor, is remembered among the cowards.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Thersites.html (1455 words)

	Thersites
		Thersites nodigt uit op een debat rond internetkritiek.
		Agamemnon noemde hij een gierigaard, Achilles was volgens hem een lafaard.
		Thersites maakt deel uit van The International Association of Theatre Critics, een organisatie die geaffilieerd is met UNESCO.
	www.thersites.be (460 words)

	Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Homer continues the insults: Thersites was “a blathering fool/ And a rabble rouser, [who] had a repertory/ Of choice insults he used at random to revile the nobles,” and yet this blathering fool with a pointy head steps into the circle of kings who are deliberating about whether to end their siege of Troy.
		This time it is not the misshapen Thersites who opposes the proposal, but now the proven warrior Diomedes son of Tydeus breaks the silence, transferring the language of battle to the discourse of the agora.
		Free speech may lead to the egalitarianism denied poor Thersites, it may be at the foundation of the deliberations on which self-rule is based, and it may be the condition for the investigations by a Socratic philosopher, but it also has its limits.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521819857&ss=exc (3555 words)

	Thersites - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		THERSITES, the ugliest man in the Greek camp before Troy, celebrated for his biting tongue.
		According to a later story, Achilles, after he had slain the Amazonian queen Penthesilea, bitterly lamented her death; for this he was reviled by Thersites, who even insulted the body of the dead queen.
		There was a play by Chaeremon called Achilles the Thersites-slayer, probably a satyric drama, the materials of which were taken from the Aethiopis of Arctinus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thersites (124 words)

	Classics Corner
		Enter Thersites: "Now the rest had sat down, and were orderly in their places, but one man, Thersites of the endless speech, still scolded...
		Thersites "knew within his head many words, but disorderly; vain and without decency, to quarrel with the princes with any word he thought might be amusing to the Argives."
		Thersites, like a good organizer, rubs raw the sores of discontent: Agamemnon's insatiable lust for loot and women comes at the expense of the common soldier.
	www.classicscorner.org /Thersites.html (443 words)

	MonkeyNotes-Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
		Thersites replies that he would have attempted to rant Ajax into intelligence but he is so dumb that his horse would probably be more capable of learning something by rote than Ajax himself could learn a prayer without a book.
		Thersites says that Ajax is as envious of Achilles as the Cerberes, the three-headed dog guardian of Hades who is supposed to fight with and mutilate suitors for the hand of Proserpina, and is hence assumed to be envious of her beauty.
		Thersites continues that Achilles would then pound Ajax into shivers with his fist as easily as a sailor breaks a biscuit.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmTroilus29.asp (613 words)

	Thersites
		Thersites was bow legged, lame, and his shoulders caved inward.
		Homer mentions that he was a vulgar man whose "head was full of obscenities, teeming with rant." Thersites incurred Odysseus wrath when he called Agamemnon greedy and Achilles a coward.
		Later, Achilles struck Thersites upside the head for mocking his sorrow at the death of Penthesilea.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/t/thersites.html (151 words)

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		In the case of Thersites, Agamemnon makes the case that the gods, Zeus in particular, were too strong and their intent was not to be questioned.
		In Thersites’ case, he was accused of reaching beyond his place and trying to invade this inner-circle to which he did not belong.
		Thersites was clearly not welcome to express his opinions.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~rtruog/PS101paper1.doc (590 words)

	Thersites
		The purpose of Thersites is to give insight in the phenomenon of the tar dewpoint and to allow calculation of tar dewpoints of your product gases.
		Thersites was a member of the Greek army in the Trojan War.
		In modern times it seems that Thersites has been reborn in the appearance of “tar”.
	www.thersites.nl (251 words)

	THERSITES - Truth Sayer
		Thersites, the only common soldier mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, must have been an extraordinary man, for he had the guts to tell his comrades, their king Agamemnon and his officers, that they had been sent on a fool's errand, chasing after a silly twit named Helen who ran off with young Paris.
		And for his pains Thersites was savagely beaten by Odysseus, killed by the coward Achilles, and portrayed by the aristophile Homer in the most calculated, cruel and derisive manner, all for telling the simple truth.
		Homer adds that Thersites was especially hateful to Achilles and Odysseus, for they had frequently been the objects of his coarse humor.
	www.networkcentralca.net /thersites.htm (1410 words)

	Thersites
		Thersites, der Sohn des Agrios, ist ein griechischer Mitkämpfer im Trojanischen Krieg, in Homers Ilias als hässlich und schmähsüchtig geschildert, dem aber auch manche unangenehme Wahrheit in den Mund gelegt wird.
		In der gehobenen Umgangssprache ist „Thersites“ ein gepflegtes Schimpfwort für einen Hetzer und Stänkerer.
		Thersites tritt als Theaterfigur auf in William Shakespeares in Deutschland selten gespieltem Stück Troilus und Cressida.
	www.weblexikon.de /Thersites.html (387 words)

	Mitchell's Rainforest Snail Thersites mitchellae Recovery Plan - Introduction
		Mitchell's Rainforest Snail Thersites mitchellae is a large terrestrial snail found only in remnant lowland rainforest and swamp forest areas on the NSW far north coast.
		The aim of this recovery plan is to identify and protect the remaining habitat and extant populations of the species and to encourage community involvement in the conservation and recovery of the species.
		The genus Thersites (Family Camaenidae Subfamily Camaeninae) is a group of large land snails inhabiting rainforests in north-east NSW and south-east Queensland (Bishop 1978).
	www.environment.gov.au /biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/t-mitchellae/introduction.html (977 words)

	Private Gomer Pyle: Full Metal Jacket’s Thersites Metamorphosed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Elsewhere in the epic tradition (Aethiopis) Thersites taunts Achilles for his hastily found and lost love for Penthesileia, and he is punished once again by a Homeric king.
		The army has dehumanized this bumpkin in order to develop him into a killing machine, but now the tables are turned and their newly developed killing machine kills the discipline and authority on which the army thrives.
		Then this modern Thersites turns his weapon on himself, committing suicide in a bloody sequence meant to horrify the viewing audience which now feels pity for the renegade soldier.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/01mtg/abstracts/jsolomon.html (550 words)

	Somebody’s been hitting the frozen rum drinks, I see! (UPDATED)
		What Thersites is attempting is a binary separation of Universe into “literature” and “not-literature”, claiming for himself the authority to draw the boundary and arrogating to himself the ability to construct it from the symbols without reference to the author.
		Ric clearly believes Thersites’ intent—to carve out a special place for literature (which, by the way, I have no problem with; what is silly is the idea that literary differs materially from non-literature in terms of how it functions as language)—and so, even if he is wrong, he has followed the procedures for proper interpretation.
		Thersites claims that it is valid to interpret a message based solely upon the symbols and the meaning the reader applies to them.
	www.proteinwisdom.com /index.php/weblog/entry/20320 (9793 words)

	Theatre for a New Audience: Troilus and Cressida, Act II Scene 1
		Thersites' crabbed and complex diatribes would be perfect material for Armin, though the cynical Greek is a darker, more aggressive critic than his predecessors in the comedies, and his bitter commentaries look toward the later rueful parables of Lear's Fool.
		he major themes of Thersites' railing are the sheer absurdity of the war that is being fought, and he measures it in his characteristic language of disease and decay.
		Thersites' preoccupation with these various symptoms is far from clinical, he calls them up in all their irritation as if they are familiar companions.
	www.tfana.org /2001/troilus/troilus03.htm (1490 words)

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	www.specieslist.com /endangered/scientific_name/M/Mops_thersites.shtml (413 words)

	§16. English adaptations of Textor’s Neo-classic Plays. V. Early English Comedy. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, ...
		His dialogue Thersites, written in Latin hexameters, was adapted into English in a version which must have been acted (as a reference to the birth of prince Edward proves) in October, 1537.
		Heywood, indeed, may plausibly be regarded as the author of the adaptation, which, in its verve, raciness and, it must be added, indecency, is akin to his own work.
		In any case, the adapter of Thersites, whoever he be, is almost certainly responsible for the version of another of Textor’s dialogues, Juvenis, Pater, Uxor, of which a fl letter fragment has recently been discovered and reprinted with the title The Prodigal Son.
	www.bartleby.com /215/0516.html (691 words)

	Shakespeare Art Museum - Thersites in Troilus & Cressida
		Thersites is described in the cast as a "deformed and scurrilous Grecian", and he is that indeed!
		But Thersites has been weather-proofed against name-calling; besides he has become such a master in the technique that it has little effect on him.
		To him, the war itself was illegitimate and obscene, and he was not at all deceived by the patriotic propaganda or themes of "honor" for which Helen was the emblem.
	shakespeare-art-museum.com /Watercolors/bf03.html (300 words)

	Thersites - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Greek mythology, Thersites, son of Agrius, was a rank-and-file soldier of the Greek army during the Trojan War.
		Homer described him in detail in the Iliad, even though he plays only a minor role in the story.
		Along with many of the major figures of the Trojan War, Thersites was also a character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Thersites (160 words)

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		THERSITES Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles, and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is at Proserpine's beauty, ay, that thou barkest at him.
		THERSITES There's Ulysses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes, yoke you like draught-oxen and make you plough up the wars.
		THERSITES I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to your tents: I will keep where there is wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /gopher/text/earlymodern/shakespeare/comedy/TroilusAndCressida/TroilusAndCressida_ACT_II_SCENE_III (713 words)

	The Iliad - Book 02 - The Great Gathering of Armies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thersites: this terrific portrait of Thersites (246ff) inspired Shakespeare, who wrote his satire of the Iliad, Troilus and Cressida, based on Thersites’s character here.
		Thersites is the one non-aristocrat among the Achaeans, and they despise him.
		Martin Mueller points out that Thersites has no right to speak, despite the fact that what he says is exactly what Achilles said.
	pages.cabrini.edu /jzurek/homer/iliad02.htm (420 words)

	Troilus and Cressida
		Thersites the slave happens by with a letter for Achilles and allows his acerbic tongue to wag freely.
		Thersites understands the folly of war and well knows that its glory-seeking combatants are small and stupid.
		Thersites and Ulysses comment on the action—Ulysses with eloquence and Thersites with invective that points out the shortcomings of the so-called heroes.
	cummingsstudyguides.net /xTroilus.html (3310 words)

	Real Change News
		We, the outspoken, disorderly, pain-in-the-ass truthtellers of the world have, if not a hero in Thersites, then at least a martyr.
		Thersites, like a good organizer, rubs raw the sores of discontent: Agamemnon's insatiable lust for loot and women comes at the expense of the common soldier.
		Like some kind of proto-Quaker of the distant past, Thersites is speaking Truth to Power.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastarticles/classics/classicscorner.html (425 words)

	Was Achilles Gay?
		THERSITES Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee.
		THERSITES The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound.
		THERSITES Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk: thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet.
	www.angelfire.com /weird2/randomstuff/achilles2.html (742 words)

	SparkNotes: Troilus and Cressida: Act II
		In the Greek camp, Ajax summons his slave, Thersites, and orders him to find out the nature of the proclamation that has just been posted.
		Thersites, a foul-mouthed ruffian, refuses to obey and instead curses his master and the Greeks with equal vigor, provoking Ajax to beat him.
		All the characters in the play are desperately self-conscious--too aware, in a sense, of their role as "heroes," and not aware that their unpleasant behavior stains their heroic feats.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/troilus/section3.rhtml (1044 words)

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