CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Chryseis, Metic, Odysseus
1 Jan 2018
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Wednesday, october 18th: losing and saving face, horizontal relations, vertical relations (cid:41804) saving and losing face. In athenian society what other people think of you is more important than how you perceive yourself independently, similar in concept to that of the looking glass self: I think i am who you think i am . During the battle of troy, the achaeans capture a pair of beautiful maidens, chryseis and briseis. When they refuse to give them back, the priest of apollo grows mad and. In order to stop the plague achilles must give make his token (the woman) and it causes him to lose his honour. For this reason, he strikes and refuses to continue battle in war: medea. Media loses her husband in infidelity, and when her husband chooses his mistress over he she feels shame. So she decides to kill her children so that he will suffer.
