CLASSIC 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Argos, Aristeia, Euphronios
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About honor (time) vs. shame, losing face: who has more honor, zero-sum game. Quarrel over status: who is the strongest, the most powerful: best of the achaeans. Helen: helen weaving an iliad (1. 125-128: to blame or not to blame helen , helen & paris. Aphrodite and helen: sweet longing for menelaos , helen talking back, anger of aphrodite. *greeks referred as: (sons of) achaeans, argives, danaans. Iliad 4/5 the truce is broken/aristeia (great day in battle) of diomedes. Hector: i have learned to be valiant": 1. 44: motivation: his glory, his father"s glory and honor, avoid being shamed/labeled a coward, courage. Difference between glory and honor: reputation vs. triumph: self-sacrifice: helen"s wishes, patroclus"s reality. Hektor fights for his wife, son, parents, city: andromache and astyanax in iliad 6, priam and hecuba in iliad 22. Embassy to achilles (ingres) the ambassadors of agamemnon in the tent of. Achilles: jean auguste dominique ingres, neo-classical, 1801, oil.
