CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Adrastus, Hephaestus, Homeric Hymns
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Complete all the readings and know storylines/main characters. Go over all lecture slides and notes for major themes stressed. Have list of key words in greek, characters (and variations), and major themes (eating, relationship between god and humans) Iliad 3 & 6 justice and destruction a. In iliad 2, agamemnon prepares the achaens for battle. In books 4-5, battle rages back-and-forth after the duel. Trojans: i. ii. iii. iv. i. ii. iii. iv. Priam and hecuba, king and queen of troy. Holy athena, shining among goddesses, hecuba cried, protectress of our city, mighty goddess, break the spear of diomedes and lay him low before the scaean gates. Do this, and we will sacrifice twelve heifers that have never yet known the goad, in your temple, if you will have pity upon the town, with the wives and little ones of the. Trojans. thus she prayed, but pallas athena granted not her prayer. Why is athena a goddess of troy? i.