Thersites - Wikipedia In medicine, the term Thersites complex refers to patients who have a very minor deformity, yet who are extremely anxious about it They frequently contact surgeons to correct their "highly perceived" deformity
Thersites - World History Encyclopedia Thersites is a character in the Iliad who made a stand against Agamemnon and the enterprise of the Trojan War Homer chose to add Thersites’ speech after Achilles’ infamous dispute with Agamemnon, probably to emphasize the struggles that the Achaean side underwent during the war
Thersites - Greek Mythology Thersites was a Greek warrior who fought during the Trojan War, in Greek mythology He was described as being lame, vulgar and dull-witted
Thersites in Greek Mythology - Greek Legends and Myths Thersites was a soldier or hero of the Achaean forces during the Trojan War Thersites is most famous today for his appearance in the Iliad, in which Homer has him as a relative comic character who is bow-legged and outspoken
Thersites: the “Jack Sparrow” of the Trojan War Ancient Greek philosophers like Plato, perceived Thersites as a buffoon, while modern thinkers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx view him as a social critic of his time The name Thersites literally translates to “the one who provokes with audacity ”
Thersites, the Iliad, and Not Knowing Your Place - waggish The point that you are missing is that Thersites wants to go home because he is tired and coward, and he felt his slice of the cake was not big enough This is the origin his attack against the authority, and not the reasonable question “why are we doing this?”
Thersites | Oxford Classical Dictionary Thersites, according to Homer the ugliest man at Troy, lame, bow-legged, round-shouldered, almost bald, who abuses Agamemnon until beaten into silence by *Odysseus (Il 2 212 ff )
Thersites Sarcastic, snide and sneering, Thersites is an abashed coward who punctures every high-sounding ideal he comes across and unanswerably reduces the war to an absurdity over a domestic dispute He has no regard for anybody, Greek or Trojan, with the possible exception of himself