01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thersites, Pandarus, Iliad
18 Mar 2016
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Two types of stories focus on trojan family dynasty kingdom that priam (established status-quo: homer wants us to empathize with priam point of contact with audience, achaeans: mercenary army that are there out of obligation. Paris proposes a duel whoever wins gets. Aphrodite throws mist over paris and transports him somewhere else. War starts for real engineered by hera. She doesn"t like the truce and urges the gods to intervene. Zeus agrees eventually: iris is sent to get pandarus a trojan, to shoot an arrow at menelaus. Battle begins agamemnon review his troops and urged his best warriors to rush into battle (by insulting them: hector goes to get paris to bring him back to battle sympathetic portrayal of helen and the other women. Greeks ask achilles to come back says no. Portrayal of individuals entangled in thematic lines here. (ex. Priam: iliad is a tragedy everything is inevitable (gods), no one has a choice and no one really wins.
