Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Chryses, Chryseis, Iliad
15 Oct 2018
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Recruitments: odysseus, clever trick of insanity foiled by clever palamedes, achilles (akhilleus, hidden on skyros with daughters of lycomedes, dressed as a girl, discovered by clever odysseus, the ships gathers at aulis from all over greece. One entire book of epithalamia, or wedding songs: now, just a fraction survives, most of it fragmentary, fragments have come to us in the form of shreds of papyrus unearthed at. Oxyrhynchus, some citations by ancient authors, one potsherd. she whom one loves best. Some there are who say that the fairest thing seen on the black earth is an array of horsemen; some, men marching; some would say ships; but i say is the loveliest. Light were the work to make this plain to all, since she, who surpassed in beauty all mortality, helen, once forsaking fled away to troy-land across the water.
