RE233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homeric Scholarship, Trojan War, Troy Book
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Re 233 unit 1 lesson 1: homer"s the iliad. Iliad and odyssey have shaped narrative imagination of the west. Iliad = book about war (war pervasive fact of 21st century) Dread, horror and sublimity have been elements of the sacred. Homers account of battle is both horror and sublimity of war. New age = new conceptions about sacred . New age sacred = wholeness, tranquility, bliss, peace, etc. Notions of sacred do involve violence, terror, transgression, etc. (experience in iliad) Achilles recognizes nature of mortality, yielding and controlling will. Begins in medias res (middle of the subject) Not a chronicle, but a study of rage. Not about the war but its subject matter. Achilles is angry at agamemnon, which lead to consequences to himself and all fighting for troy. Book 1: agamemnon takes briseis, achilles war prize. Book 9: agamemnon asks achilles back, he refuses.