CLA 2101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chryseis, Aristeia, Odysseus
14 Sep 2016
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The following are excerpts from m. willcock"s book, a companion to the iliad, university of chicago press, 1976. The greek commander agamemnon is forced by the arguments of achilles at a public assembly to agree to return his captive, chryseis, to her father, a local priest. This leads to a violent quarrel, during which agamemnon uses his superior rank to inform achilles that he will replace chryseis with achilles" own captive briseis. Achilles publicly withdraws from the army and asks his goddess mother thetis, to persuade zeus to help the trojans. The composition of book 1 is simple and natural; it falls into three sections: 1-430: the quarrel itself, its causes and its immediate consequences. An interlude showing the passage of time, and allowing the return of the girl. Book 2 falls into two parts: the testing of the army and the catalogues of the troops.
