CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Strigil, Panhellenic Games, Odysseus
1 Feb 2013
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Important to greeks to respect images of gods regardless of their feelings towards them. Last passage of chapter 3 p. 126, very important to understand their relationship with gods. To respect rituals as in the past: agon= competition, friends vs. enemies, had to compete in religious festivals, tragedies. Brave, tall, strong warrior, also trojans were afraid of fighting against him. Aias carrying corpse of achilles: odysseus and aias wanted weapons of achilles, greeks didn"t know what to do, which one of the two would get this honour, cast ballot and odysseus was the winner. Passage lysias, against andokides: recorded fact that happened in athens, mutilation of hermai (herms). Stone/marble pillars with hermes: god of goings and comings. Aias was pissed that he didn"t get achilles" shit, became kind of cray cray, went to kill a flock of sheep thinking that he was killing enemies.
