HUM 102W Lecture Notes - Trojan War, Iphianassa, Odysseus
27 Mar 2014
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Moreover, the folk were cheering both, showing favour to this side and to that. And heralds held back the folk, and the elders were sitting upon polished stone in the sacred circle, holding in their hands the staves of the loud- voiced heralds. Therewith then would they spring up and give judgement, each in turn. And in the midst lay two talents of gold, to be given to whoever among them should utter the most righteous judgement. The beginning of the iliad is the story of a conflict and its genesis. It"s not the trojan war as a whole, but rather a conflict between achilles and agamemnon. His anger leads achilles to withdraw from the war. In our course we aren"t reading every book of the iliad. But we are focusing in on several books that reveal events critical to the principal theme. Already in book 1 several of the characters, including.
