CLAS 10200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Pow Wow, Odysseus, Mezentius

• School: ND
• Department: Classics in Translation
• Course: CLAS 10200
• Professor: Mazurek Tadeusz

Document Summary

Ad maiorem dei gloriam=do everything in the glory of god. Nisus and euryalus: more obsessed with spoils, euryalus despoils enemy and puts it on, betrayed by armor, shiny helmet, nisus had escaped, loves euryalus. Odysseus and diomedes: greed and love lead to downfall. Deaths of the heroes (bk 10: pallas=represents glory, heroic code. Picture on pallas" belt is marker of death for turnus: lausus=represents glory, family, loyalty (filial piety) Father is mezentius (evil king: mezentius=represents revenge. Wounded and taken off battlefield by lausus. Put on horse to avenge death of lausus.