CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Little Iliad, Aegisthus, Odysseus
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The iliad focuses on achilles"s menis, the odyssey focuses on. Compare nost-algia = the pain you feel when thinking about home. Metis - the cleverness/intelligence odysseus uses throughout the story. Whereas the iliad goes straight from the rising and setting of achilles"s menis, the. Odyssey explores side issues and tells its tale in a variety of ways. Book 5-8: odysseus arrives to scheria (land of the phaeacians) The fate of ajax (son of telemon) Odysseus wins achilles"s armor (through trickery) against ajax. Ajax feels so dishonored he plans to kill agamemnon, menelaus, and odysseus. Athena takes his senses away, and he kills sheep instead. Ajax kills himself bc of his shame. Grabs onto a statue of athena, ajax (son of oilios), rapes her in front of the statue. Neoptolemus (son of achilles) shows up after achilles is killed. He kills king priam at an alter (a violation of religious norms)