HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Odysseus
28 Jan 2014
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Line 167, hector and agamemnon are both chief leaders. No combat as paris and menelaus fight for helen, no blood shed. Helen is summoned by the goddess iris, function of divine intervention to provide scene change in the book. Helen wonders where her brothers are, she doesn"t know they were killed. Aphrodite intervenes to protect paris, he"s her favourite. Breaks strap and sends him to bedroom with helen. Helen is frustrated, she compares her old courageous husband to paris. God of love encourages them to make love. Paris violated the oath, paris hated by greeks and trojans. Because he is the reason why this war started. Apollo supports trojans, aphrodite trojans, zeus for a time gives trojan benefit but knows. Athena brushes arrow to only wound menelaus, pandoros is blameless cuz he was convinced by athena. Agamemnon summons to call the healer who sucks menelaus" blood. Agamemnon carries out praise and blame kings and what not.
