HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iliad, Pathos
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Lecture 5 the ends of the iliad. Aspects of poesis: poetic craft: eloquence rhetorical force and verbal form, pathos the orchestration of feeling, narrative design narrative repetition and conceptual pattern. Hector"s prayer for astyanax is parallel to achilles"s prayer for patroclus. Hector a prayer for his son to be better than him, and a. Achilles the true happiness of the hero could only be achieved through the annihilation of everyone but the hero: the iliad is an artifact. Is a made thing (from arte and facere) Functions of poetry: making memory, distributing honor, ekphrasis the verbal depiction of a work of visual art. 200 lines just for descriptions of achilles"s armor right before the climax of the story. Hephaestus, who made the armor, is pushed around by the other gods, rejected by his parents, but in the privacy of his own room he makes the armor, creates and artifact.
