CLAS-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hector, Odysseus, Iliad
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Last day: hektor killed a(cid:272)hille"s frie(cid:374)d patro(cid:272)lus, a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)hilles took his ar(cid:373)our. Book 20 and 21, the most vicious of the books in the iliad. Only hektor remains outside the walls, wants to meet achilles in battle. Hektor and giving him the strength to run as fast as achilles. They are running around the wall after each other. Zeus has a soft spot for hektor, should he save him. Athena challenges her father, and zeus (cid:373)ust a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept hektor"s fate to (cid:271)e killed (cid:271)y a(cid:272)hilles. Athena leaves mount olympus, to help achilles. Today (cid:449)as hektor"s death day, apollo a(cid:271)a(cid:374)do(cid:374)ed hektor (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause he has (cid:374)o (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)e. athena will help achilles kill hektor, much like apollo helped hektor kill patroclus. Athe(cid:374)a disguises herself as o(cid:374)e of hektor"s (cid:271)rothers. Achilles hurls his spear at hektor, he dodges. Turns to brother to ask for new spear but there was nobody there.