CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hector, Augur, Helenus
9 Mar 2018
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The two sides (cid:373)eet; hele(cid:374); (cid:373)e(cid:374)"s spa(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s spa(cid:272)e; two (cid:271)rothers (cid:272)o(cid:374)trast. Homeric simile: natural world + obscure myth. Menelaus and paris: paris: not a warrior. Paris: too many weapons, lack of inexperience, he is playing a warrior rather than actually being one. Menelaus vs. paris= recreating the origins of the war. Two men fighting over a woman seen in book 1 and 3. A god can never appear to a mortal without a disguise. Helen is an object, without her beauty she is nothing, taking away her beauty would ruin her current life living with kings. Priam shows how he is kind and gentle but the other old men blame her for the war, her beauty is a bad thing because it causes men to fight over her; war. On the battlefield: sacrifices and prayers, soldiers ready to go home, menelaus for the stronger.
