CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kleos, Bar And Bat Mitzvah, Bachelor Party
Document Summary
Homer was very popular, many copies of his work; no broken translations or lost records. Sometimes accurate, sometimes not; historical accuracy not that important, this poem was very popular regardless. Homer and the iliad has an interesting point of view, artful, the way homer tells the story affects the meaning. Achilles asks mother to request zeus to let the trojans win so that agamemnon will see the error in his ways for disrespecting and not honouring the best of all achaens (achilles) 3 best friends come to achilles (odysseus, ajax and phoenix) Achilles sang of the glories of heroes in war; sang about other heroes and the reward. Achilles would have for living such a life. Eetion is the father of andromache (andromache tells hector not to fight since achilles took away her family and town; the lyre from eetion is a symbol of her suffering)
