HUMA 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chryses, Chryseis, Atreus
4 Jan 2018
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Proem & invocation to the muse 1. 1-8. Achilles, heroes, the will of zeus and bitter collision. Chryses, chryseis, agamemnon, apollo & his plague 1. 9-52: chryses, priest of apollo, father of chryseis, war prize (geras) of atreus" son, Agamemnon, comes to the fast ships of the achaians [the greeks ], to ransom / back his daughter, carrying gifts beyond count (1ines 12-13). He supplicates atreus" two sons, agamemnon & menelaos, the marshals of the people . Achaians favour respecting the priest and taking his shining ransom (line 22), Agamemnon, king of the mykenai, the chief leader of the achaians, & thus the greatest of all the achaians (91), tells chryses that he will not give chryseis back, threatens him. Apollo hears his prayer and, angered, lets go his arrows on the achaians, first their mules & hounds but then the men themselves.
