Classical Studies 1000 Chapter Notes -Iliad, Smallpox, Retching

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000

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Figure 1 - pieter bruegel the elder, the. Great plague: the iliad begins with a plague. " let the danaans pay for my tears with your arrows. " Apollo heard him, and came down from the pinnacles of olympus, angered in his heart, carrying across his shoulder the bow and the hooded quiver; and the shafts clashed on the shoulders of the god in his anger. He came like night, and then knelt down apart from the ships, Figure 2 - "the dance of death" by hans. Holbein the younger and then let an arrow go. Terrible was the clash that rose from the silver arrow. First he went after the mules and the swift dogs, then let go a tearing arrow against the men themselves and struck them. And the pyres of the dead were always burning without pause: apollo brought the plague upon the greeks after being asked to by a.