The first example of historic extreme violence is back in the time of the Iliad and the Odyssey during the Greek era, which happened during the eighth or ninth centuries BCE. These two epics, which are considered by many scholars to be very fine works of art, are filled with gratuitous acts of violence and other such acts of immoral behavior. In the Iliad, especially in Book 5, where Homer tells of Diomedes' aristea, a detailed account of how a man battles and injures both man and gods is given. In lines 72-75, for example, Homer gives us a terrifyingly graphic description of the battle scene:

"Now the son of Phyleus, the spear-famed, closing u

Examples of aggression and viciousness are also given in the Odyssey. In this, most say that Odysseus was justified in doing what he did, but it is still brutal fighting. The best example of viciousness is given when Odysseus finally returns home and has to defeat the suitors:

and he dropped in the dust gripping in his teeth the cold bronze."

jetted crimson runnels, a river of mortal red, and one last kick

upset his table knocking the bread and meat to soak in dusty blood."

bodies lay deep in blood, half-dead horses rolled about entangled

struck him with the sharp spear behind the head at the tendon,

and then the groans of the dying could be heard, weapons and

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