01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Study Guide, Myrmidons

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Classical Humanities
• Course: 01:190:205
• Professor: John Mc Glew

Document Summary

Note: study guide will be on sakai on thursday. One city portrayed at peace (not utopia, has crime but procedures/order for justice): shows people divided, sacred circle with elders where judgment is given. 18: hephaestus makes new armor/shield for achilles. He calls another assembly (like in book: gives up his rage and agamemnon repeats his regret. Says he has not touched briseis, who is given back to achilles. Achilles seems desperate to return to battle: relationship between honor and punishment for the greeks (achilles loses patroc. in the process of getting honor) 20: achilles meets first aeneas and then hector in battle. 21: achilles enrages the river scamander by filling it with corpses. Lycaeon and captures 12 trojan youth (for patroc. pyre). Trojans escape, except hector: greeks didn"t believe in human sacrifice, achilles is getting to the limits (attacking gods and doing things that are seen as beyond acceptable greek behavior) 22: hector meets achilles, loses his courage and fleers.