01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Myrmidons, Odysseus, Community Service
18 Mar 2016
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Recap: thersides is there to be excluded a commoner, inferior. Representation of character and the main theme of community at its roots. Hector as father/souse/son/brother: he is the son of priam and is the greatest warrior of the trojans, his son is astyanax. Interplay of hopelessness and hope: dies reader feels for him (family representation shown, he knows he is not the equal of achilles (foreshadows death by. Very human admission + humanity in showing he can"t stand up to achilles: andromache wife: common greek theme of wife asking husband to think past his own dead and what will happen to the family. Shame nobility value system (nobles feel sham de/honor) and hector fears shame: dragged behind a chariot by achilles later in the book. Greeks/nestor sends an embassy to beg achilles to come fight (odysseus, Phoenix and ajax go: agamemnon concedes while implicitly excusing his part in the quarrel: ate.
