IH 0951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chryseis, Apollonian And Dionysian, Trojan War

• School: Temple University
• Department: Intellectual Heritage
• Course: IH 0951
• Professor: Jordan Shapiro

Document Summary

Apollo - starts the iliad - the story of the ending of the trojan war by helping chryseis father get her back from agamemnon. Epithet - descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. Epithets for apollo - destroyer of mice, bright, pure, god of silver bow, prophetic, ever- young. Sun god - god of music, poetry and medicine. rational thought, reason, math. Apollonian - of or relating to the rational, ordered, and self-disciplined aspects of human nature. boundaries/rigidity/individuation/self-consciousness.