COMM 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Odysseus
15 Dec 2020
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Achillies fights for his side- represents fighting for everyone, heroic culture compared to. Achilles says he"s not my king when he is handed the scepter to give to. Shows achilles is a rebellious spirit and doesn"t follow the culture of the greeks. Achilles mom says he will be forgotten, but if he goes to troy he will get epic glory when he dies. The fates/ gods have already foreseen he will die in troy, he knows he will die. But he still has a choice to go or not, he has 2 fates to live or not and he ends up choosing glory and to die. In the real epic, the slave never says anything - slaves cant talk back in epics its super patricarcical. He was not in love with her, he had conquered her so he was upset because.
