HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Trojan War, Foal, Techne
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Lecture 4 the poetics of the iliad. Agamemnon: i am hardly the man to order men , the form of agamemnon"s language, difference between his orders and what he says b. i. They succeed in representing the values of homeric values, which is the problem. b. i. 1. This is a problem in the values themselves. Kinds of honor: time honor as material reward, kudos honor as shine or star quality, kleos glory, fame, immortality c. i. Briseis is a prize to achilles, not a person. Hector him: does not have a choice between two fates. He fights a defensive war: he is all to andromache. His wife begs him to stay with him: comes to the only conclusion that the heroic code allows. He describes what it feels like to have no choice c. i. How can we take seriously acting on fear of other people judgment rather than our own laws? c. ii.
