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was he the only reasonable Greek in the Iliad?

>"Agamemnon,” he cried, “what ails you now, and what more do you want? Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them. Would you have yet more gold, which some Trojan is to give you as a ransom for his son, when I or another Achaean has taken him prisoner? or is it some young girl to hide and lie with? It is not well that you, the ruler of the Achaeans, should bring them into such misery.
>“Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this man here at Troy to stew in his own prizes of honor, and discover whether or not we were of any service to him. Achilles is a much better man than he is, and see how he has treated him—robbing him of his prize and keeping it himself. Achilles takes it meekly and shows no fight; if he did, son of Atreus, you would never again insult him.

Thersites had a point to be honest.

Tell me about Thersites. Why was he so based?

So why does Thersites alone get depicted as a pathetic in the Iliad when his complaints are the exact same as Achilles' and even Odysseus at one point? Is it okay to bitch and moan if you're a demigod in the same way you can be a petty, vindictive asshole as long as you're a god?

>>8866316
>Agamemnon
>shit tier

Get the fuck outta here, Thersites

>>8847892
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