"ah the arrogance and ignorance of youth."
amending that i would say" ah the arrogance and ignorance of the elderly!" u exhibiet the very prominenet characteristics of thoses characters in litreture who are severly proud of there age.let me remind u, wisdom doesn't come with age, because if it did, you would still not have been fighting with me...it's something about getting old that perverts the mind i guess....
He didn't listen to anyone because he was so full of hubris, duh. It didn't matter who talked to him, he wasn't going to listen. Unless, maybe, a god came down to slap him around.
"Meat the consequences." Heh, is that similar to a stoning? Is it a meating?
Any character who possesses hubris ultimately is destroyed; Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Pentheus (I think that's his name), Jason, etc., etc. Doesn't have anything to do with age.
-Smitten Kitten-