CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Shaft Tomb, Anchises, Hisarlik
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End of bronze age, end of palaces and kings. Agamemnon takes the priest of apollo"s daughter as a slave; apollo brings a plague out of anger; agamemnon gives back slave girl. Achilles has to give back his slave, doesn"t want to lose his prize. Kleos- glory, fame, immortality for their deeds. Poets sing about actions of a hero: physical manifestation of kleos- buildings. Achilles hides and sulks in his tent because agamemnon offended his kleos. Achilles"s sidekick patroclus takes his place in the army and later dies: achilles becomes mad with grief. Achilles comes back to kill hector, patroclus"s killer: achilles kills hector and drags hector"s body, hector"s father priam ransoms hector"s body. Gets killed by paris by an arrow in his vulnerable spot. Achilles goes to the island of the blessed. Odysseus gets an idea of building a large horse as a gift to athena from the. Trojans bring it in and greeks invade troy.
