You Can Go Your Own Way
The Problems with Agamemnon's Leadership in Homer's Iliad
Welcome to the first "song" on the "album" Beyond the Boundaries of Fantasia. In this seven-hour experience you will become familiar with ancient leadership in the following ways:- You will hone your ability to identify, frame, and ponder problems of leadership within the context of the devastating "break up" of Agamemnon and Achilles in Book One of Homer's great epic, the Iliad.
- You will come to see how problems of leadership can be specific to the culture they appear in, in this case the heroic world of Greek oral poetry in the seventh century BCE.
- Finally, you will apply your understanding to modern leadership problems and consider the relevance of contemporary social science and psychology for understanding problems of ancient and modern leadership.
