CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sarpedon, Exemplum, Odysseus
7 Oct 2015
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Gathering the dead: importance of burial, for religious reasons and social reasons. Poseidon and zeus: gods with human emotions (poseidon is angry, no sacri ce for the wall, zeus" dif cult position. Agamemnon"s questionable leadership: tells all the men to leave the war, demoralized, inappropriate timing. Diomedes: young, rash, excellent warrior energizes the men, speaks against agamemnon; his lack of moral strength. Nestor takes control: very old man; vast experience, when we see him, we will get good advice, damage control: removes agamemnon from the public; set a guard on the camp, suggests reconciliation. Agamemnon concedes: vast list of honouri c gifts for achilles. The embassy to achilles: odysseus, ajax, phoenix + 2 heralds. The embassy arrives: hospitality: serious business, odysseus" speech, highly rhetorical and well-crafted, a re-cap of the events of the war, kill hector, repeats agamemnon"s list of promised gifts, doesn"t trash agamemnon to achilles.
