CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sarpedon, Calydonian Boar, Kleos
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Agamemnon"s dream and greek assembly: nestor, thersites, telamonian ajax (greater, zeus enacting his plan to help achilles, zeus sends a dream to agamemnon, greek"s conceive of abstract concepts as deities, so when zeus sends a dream to. Agamemnon he is sending a deity: the dream comes to agamemnon saying i am a messenger of zeus, but the dream lies to. He is the voice of reason in the iliad: we also meet ajax. Now that achilles is out, ajax is the best fighter: despite agamemnon"s trick, they stay and fight, as the greeks rush upon the city zeus sends iris to hector to warn him and get his troops ready. Paris and helen: paris is not depicted kindly in homer, he is always described as an archer, trojans are often depicted with a phrygian cap because it shows they are eastern.
