ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iliad, Chryses, Deiphobus
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The iliad: coldhearted words he says to chryses. Agamemnon loses his mistress, chysies decides to take achilles"s mistress, Nestor: old statesman, soldier, sent by hera with athena, athena tells achilles to lash agamemnon with his tongue and not his sword. Achilles: inquisitive fellow, hot temper, pride loss of briseis is devastating. Her mother was also enslaved by him and later died of an illness: hector feels that no man alive has ever escaped fate, after hector leaves, andromache starts dirges for the dead with women of troy. Book twenty two the death of hector . Tragedy of achilles: shame over loss of myseis, guilt because he let petroclus go into battle. Achilles vs. hector: achilles, a great runner, chases hector three times around the walls of. Troy: hector is assisted by apollo, running shows hector"s fear and achilles" superhuman aggression. Hector"s promise: i will not mutilate your body: achilles do wolves make pacts with lions? .