CLAS 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Calchas, Trojan War, Arete (Moral Virtue)
9 Dec 2016
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The gathering of the expedition at aulis: menelaus and agamemnon sent word throughout greece to summon the greek leaders and contingents to the war. In another version, artemis saved her at the last moment and took her to tauri to be her priestess. Achilles heals telephus: on the way to troy the greeks landed in mysia. The greeks successfully established a beachhead, made a permanent camp, and prepared to besiege troy. Events of the first nine years of the war are obscure. The iliad focuses on the final year: only deals with the events between the outbreak of achilles" and agamemnon"s quarrel to hector"s burial. Losing briseis was a slight to his honor as well as to his arete: his withdrawal caused the greeks many losses, he finds comfort from his mother thetis. Thetis agrees to go to zeus for help - he vows that he will honor her son, and grant success to the.
