CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Sarpedon, Calchas, Kleos
11 Mar 2013
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Achilles alliance: achilles was pissed off because all the others were fighting due to oath of. Tyndareus and were under assumption of reciprocal honour. Agamemnon distributed prize whenever they took over a place: achilles has a girl called briseis and agamemnon took cryses (daughter of priest of apollo), apollo sends down plague against greeks. Calchas determines reason why plague hit the greeks. Agamemnon says he will give up cryses only if he get. Briseis, achilles refuses (due to system of honour and that he wanted glory) and stops fighting for the greeks: agamemnon sends ajax, odysseus, and phoinix to try and get achilles to go back to fighting. Makes it clear that agamemnon was only half-trying and states that he is still the better man. Kills sarpedon who is zeus" son: glaukos, another leader bashes hector for not being a leader in his end of reciprocity, death is probably what the iliad was about.
