ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Swineherd, Laestrygonians, Eurycleia
19 Apr 2016
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The armour of achilles should have gone to ajax but odysseus was smart and made a good argument. Apollo told him that you need to get achilles" son into the battle. His name was perios but they changed his name. The son has gotten all his fathers bad characteristics, he has no pity. Also need to get philoctetes > he was bitten on the foot by a snake and the greeks said they couldn"t. He has herakles bow and arrow so they need him, he is healed. There is another ajax, and he rapes cassandra. She becomes the property of agamemnon, but he ends up getting athena angry and she sinks his ship. He is the only one left and is clinging a rock. Says the gods cant defeat him, zeus or poseidon kill him handle him and left him and sailed to troy. Troy is a very well defended place.
