ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Iliad, Chryses, Polybus Of Corinth
29 Oct 2017
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Achilles and priam: achilles speaks of the parable of the two jars, there is an evil jar and a good jar. Most people get a little bit of both. For example, peleus got a goddess for a wife but a son who is never home. Priam got a kingdom but his son is dead. Father begging for his child: book one chryses begging for chrysies, book twenty four priam brings ransom for hector"s body. Achilles is told by his mother, thetis, that zeus wants him to return the body: compassion/forgiveness, priam gets into the camp guided by the god hermes, priam appeals to achilles" thoughts of his own father. I put to the lips the hands of the man who killed my son. Truce: nine days for mourning, one for burial, one for building a borrow above the body on the twelfth day they will fight again.
