Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hector, Aristeia, Sarpedon
9 Feb 2017
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Relays agamemnon"s message with the offer of many gifts and honours. Phoinix: longest single speech by any character in the poem, appeals to him as an adopted member of his household and father figure. He was a fugitive who was taken in by the family of akhilleus. Acted like a father figure as he was a young man when akhilleus: uses mythological of meleager was a baby. A hero who was angry, withdrew, was offered gifts, refused them and then had to fight when his own rooms were under threat and his consort. Cleopatra begged hime: speaks of prayers as daughters of zeus who must not be denied out of folly. If he refused people"s prayers then he was refusing zeus. Decides it is a waste of time to speak. He is a man of action not a man of words. Nostos: return home and death at an old age or. Kleos: glory with an early death at troy.
