ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Troy Book, Iliad, Odysseus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: Christopher J Fanning

Document Summary

Agamemnon leader foil to achilles: wealthy. Ajax of salamis the grater ajax. Aneus aphrodite"s so(cid:374: books 2-22 spans over 6 days, story of a(cid:272)hille"s rage not the fall of troy. Book 9: agamemnon debates giving up the war and returning to greece, diomedes says that he will stay and fight alone if he must because he knows that troy is fated to fall. Agamemnon decides to try to bribe achilles with gifts to get him to come back to the war: odysseus, phoenix and ajax go to convince him. Odysseus speaks first (269) speaks of glory (this is achilles opportunity for glory) Phoenix (527) speaks of moral consequences. Ajax (762) accept the heroic standard: achilles rejects the offer he wants an apology from agamemnon, he plans to return to his home in phthia to escape his fate of a short life.