Thersites
Americannoun
noun
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Whatever his source, he found in Thersites an ideal foil to the great lords of “Troilus and Cressida,” his deeply satiric, nearly parodic remake of the Trojan War story.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
In Troilus and Cressida, the strangely comic character Thersites announces Ajax by saying “for, whosoever you take him to be, he is Ajax.”
From Time ● Sep. 20, 2013
Simon Russell Beale makes the central character more coherent than ever before, and more vital, more important, more all-encompassing – part Thersites, part corporation smoothie, part Lear.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2012
In 1981 Jonathan Miller let him loose on the role of Thersites in his Troilus and Cressida for the BBC.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2010
He suppresses Thersites, he exhorts the chieftains, he uses force on the common people.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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