ANCS-1006EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shame Society, Dactylic Hexameter, Odysseus
15 Oct 2018
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Example: from more thatn 1000 tragedies known to have been performed, we have: The iliad and odyssey are complete they weren"t written down until later on but they"re mostly complete. 15693 versus, the anger of achilles (name means bring pain to people) during 53 days (out of 10 years) His daughter, chryseis (gold), was taken by agamemnon when the town was raided. Chryses tried to get her back with ransom and agamemnon was like no and turned him away. Greeks are in trouble and call calchas to help because he knows the way of the. He calls to apollo and founds that he has to bring chryseis back and. Achilles gets mad at agamemnon and agamemnon wants achilles girl. Briseis, which he calls geras -> meaning prize. *note: when you read ancient greek, it was read as poems and songs, its how it was easier to remember for so many years.
