CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Odysseus, Sophocles, Atreus

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2D03
• Professor: stephen russell

Document Summary

45 of these on actually iliad and odyssey. 12 about ovid and ovid-related things: other stuff will be told later. A(cid:272)hilles(cid:859) ti(cid:373)e (cid:449)as har(cid:373)ed i(cid:374) the iliad: hubris- pride. Never in a positive connotation, often brings people down: arete- excellence, kleos- fame/reputation. Achilles was wrestling all the way through the iliad with his own kleos, he would be forgotte(cid:374) if he (cid:449)e(cid:374)t ho(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d did(cid:374)(cid:859)t fight. Odysseus knows if he stays on the island with calypso then no one will ever talk about him, he (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ered; he does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t the i(cid:373)(cid:373)ortalit(cid:455) cal(cid:455)pso offers. He wants human immortality (to be remembered) He also k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s if he sta(cid:455)s o(cid:374) the isla(cid:374)d (cid:894)og(cid:455)gia(cid:895), he (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e a reputatio(cid:374) It was meant to be listened to by bards: the story is a work of literature but it was constructed as a song, not intended to be read in a book, techniques.