HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Epithet, Kleos, Sarpedon
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United everything greek, all the polis": categorized/grouped the gods, iliad designed to be sung, recited every 4 years. Honored martial heroes: homer didn"t compose the entire iliad himself, he compiled it, greeks had their own dark age, iliad came out as the dark age was ending, homer starts in the middle of the story. Achilles: part mortal, part immortal, so he will eventually die, well respected warrior, but does dumb stuff, loses his wife and goes and cries to his mother. Goes to his mother, thetis, instead of his father because his father is human. He hopes the trojans will win, even though he is supposed to be fighting with the achaians. So he decides he"s going to die fighting so he dies with honor, to keep his hubris: sends his best friend petroclus to find out what"s happening to the. Achaians and they ask petroclus to bring achilles to come help them.
