CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kleos, Odysseus, Aristeia
30 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Iliad 7: greek places, build a wall around their camp, trojan plans, assembly suggests returning helen, paris refuses; greeks reject offer to return objects without helen, poseidon and zeus, gods with human emotions, zeus" difficult position. Subtly mentions agamemnon: achilles" response, purely emotional, furious and taunting, resolves to leave, phoenix, a father figures, mythological exemplum: meleager, ajax, average soldier-king. Iliad 10&11: greeks begin to lose serious ground, agamemnon, odysseus, diomedes injured, ajax alone hold the line, nestor"s plan to have patroclus enter battle in achilles" armour. Iliad 12: the greek wall, description of its destruction, battle rages. Similes: hurricane: lion or wild boar; snow, hector fights like a hurricane, hector and polydamas, hector ignores good counsel. Sarpedon: trojan ally, establishing his character for his death in book 16, momentary triumph, half-way through the poem, trojans experience tremendous success. Iliad 18: news of patroclus" death delayed.
