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It is interesting to note that Homer offers contradictory portrayals of Nestor as a source of advice.
On one hand, Homer portrays Nestor as a wise man ; Nestor repeatedly offers advice to the Achaeans that has been claimed to be anachronistic in Homer's time – for example, arranging the armies by tribes and clans or effectively using chariots in battle.
Yet at the same time Nestor's advice is frequently ineffective.
Some examples include Nestor accepting without question the dream Zeus plants in Agamemnon in Book 2 and urging the Achaeans to battle, instructing the Achaeans in Book 4 to use spear techniques that in actuality would be disastrous, and in Book 11 giving advice to Patroclus that ultimately leads to his death.
Yet Nestor is never questioned and instead is frequently praised.
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