CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Seven Against Thebes, Atreus, Tydeus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

After the trojan war: the nostoi ( homecomings ) of the greeks: buxton pp. [moving on, from the trojan war:] the grotesque myth of tereus and philomela. The war"s 10th year: the anger of achilles, which will culminate in the death of hector: textbook pp. 204 205; page 177 illustration and caption: main source: homer"s iliad, whose announced subject is the anger (greek m nis) of achilles , the quarrel with king agamemnon (who is the greek war-leader): achilles" withdrawal. Agamemnon"s hubris in (a) disrespecting a priest of apollo and (b) acting so harshly toward the top-champion greek warrior: trojan field-victories on the plains outside troy. [hektor] slays patroklos outside the walls: achilles, in wondrous new armour supplied by hephaistos [hephaestus], reenters the fighting. He slays hector: the iliad ends with the funeral of hector. 136 138: main sources: apollodorus, sophocles" stage tragedies ajax (circa 448 b. c. ) and philoctetes (409 b. c.