HUM 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Climax, Ais People, Thumos
26 Mar 2017
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Beginning of the iliad is a story about the conflict between agamemnon and achilles, and how this conflict originated: namely, achilles angered apollo by taking the daughter of apollo"s priest; Agamemnon returns the girl (chryseis), but takes achilles" prize briseis as compensation: achilles becomes angry and refuses to fight in the war. The argive leaders make agamemnon realize that they need achilles to fight with them: nestor says that agamemnon let his pride (thumos) get the better of him and unfortunately, achilles was the mighty man who got wronged. Agamemnon agrees and sends the envoy + promise of gifts: gifts: agamemnon promises to achilles many things and also promises to give any of his own daughters to achilles in marriage (likely hoping for alliance through marriage. The three daughters of agamemnon are chrysothemis, laodice/electra, and iphianassa/iphigenia. Envoy: odysseus makes the matter seem like a simple recompense with gifts, which.
