CLASSICS 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Argos, Cypria, De Facto
31 May 2020
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Space and peoples: (unified) greece and greeks anachronistic. Achilles: son of thetis (goddess) and peleus (mortal) Book 1: quarrel and dishonor; achilles withdraws in anger. Book 2-8: fighting, intrigue, startling imagery, tear-inducing pathos. Book 9: greeks appeal to angry achilles to return to battle, unsuccessfully. Book 10-15: more fighting, intrigue, startling imagery, tear-inducing pathos. Book 16: achilles" companion patroclus joins fight, is killed by hector. Book 17-19: more fighting, intrigue, startling imagery, tear-inducing pathos. Book 23: greeks honor patroclus" body; achilles desecrates hector"s body. Book 24: king priam ransoms hector"s body. The iliad only covers about 40 days in the 10th year of the war. Cypria (lost epic poem, not by homer ) Eris (strife: remember hesiod) throws golden apple into the mix, to the fairest . Daughter of zeus (as swan) and leda. The iliad begins with a quarrel between agamemnon and achilles. Agamemnon forced to return his woman (war-prize_, demands replacement.
