CLA 3380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Atimia, Hector, Companion Cavalry
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As philos hetairos (friend / loyal co-fighter / ally) As xenos and philos, as a protected person, within the house of peleus. Return to the house of peleus in disgrace = atimia and aidos. Fight for agamemnon and his gifts = death for nothing. Avenge the slight against his family, uphold his father"s name, kill hector, unleash his pain at hard targets . Futile please (33 ff) of priam and hekabe. House of the dead (receiver of all) The shield: a cosmos with no underworld (18. 565-571) Sustained by nectar and ambrosia from athena. Priam"s journey as katabasis ( descent into the underworld ) Com-passion (lat. cum, with + pati, to suffer ) Zeus and the two urns of destiny (iliad 22) Daughter of ares and amazon queen otrere. The power of delusion (ate) and shame (aidos) Heroic honors in sipylos (asia minor) and argos. Returned to live by zeus and fate (with ivory shoulder)