ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Calchas, Chryses, Iliad
29 Oct 2017
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The iliad: tells him eventually to not go into battle and to think about child. Epic conventions: epic simile, epithets, in medias res in the middle of the action, invocation calling upon gods (muses), metrical structure dactylic hexameter. Book one the rage of achilles aka the quarrel . The greeks had been sent a terrible plague by apollo: because agamemnon spurned (rejected) one of apollo"s priests, Chyrses: chryses has goods, random for his daughter, chrysies, who had been taken as a war prize, agamemnon treats the old priest horribly, after four days of an arrow plague from apollo, achilles calls order . Greeks backed by hera and athena because they were rejected by. Agamemnon feared by people like calchas, chryses: greedy takes the largest share of the spoils even though he doesn"t really fight that much pointed out by achilles in quarrel. The iliad: coldhearted words he says to chryses. Agamemnon loses his mistress, chysies decides to take achilles"s mistress,
