HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pirithous, Caeneus, Trojan War
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Homer uses his very old age to insert stories into the odyssey and iliad. Nestor tells a story about himself, ends up in trojan war (category 2: then among them arose nestor, sweet of speech, the clear-voiced orator of the pylians, from whose tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. Two generations of mortal men had passed away in his lifetime, who had been born and reared with him before in sacred. Pylos, and he was king among the third. He with good intent addressed the gathering and spoke among them: comrades, listen to me, for you are both younger than i. In earlier times i moved among men more warlike than you, and never did they despise me. Such warriors have i never since seen, nor shall i see, as peirithous was and dryas, shepherd of the people, and caeneus and exadius and godlike polyphemus, and theseus, son of aegeus, a man like the immortals.
