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Chapter 20Lecture Two of Two
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THE TROJAN WARThe Gathering at Aulis
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The Gathering at Aulis
• Menelaus appeals to Agamemnon• Odysseus resists going
– Pretends to be mad– Telemachus– Palamedes
• Calchas says Troy won’t fall without Achilles
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The Gathering at Aulis
• The stories of Achilles’s near invincibility• Thetis, Achilles’ mother, hides him in a harem• Achilles exposed through the “gifts for the
girls”
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Fig. 20.5Achilles and Chiron
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; Scala/Art Resource, New York
THE TROJAN WARThe Journey to Troy
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The Journey to Troy
• Mysia and Telephus• Telephus gets his wound healed• The sacrifice of Iphigeneia at Aulis
– Clytemnestra brings her because of Agamemnon’s lie that she’s to be married to Achilles
– In some versions a doe is substituted for her at the last minute
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Fig. 20.6Sacrifice of Iphigeneia at Aulis
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; University of Wisconsin–Madison Photo Archive
The Journey to Troy
• Philoctetes left on Lemnos because of his snake bite– Has the bow and arrows of Heracles and so will
have to be retrieved later in the war
• Protesilaus the first Greek killed in the war
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THE TROJAN WARHelen on the Wall
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Helen on the Wall
• Odysseus and Menelaüs try to negotiate, but to no avail
• Iliad begins not at the beginning of the war but in the tenth year– Not about the Trojan War but about what
happens to the Greeks when Achilles gets angry and leaves the army
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Helen on the Wall
• Helen (implausibly) describes the Greek warriors to King Priam– Why should she be doing this only in the tenth
year?
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PERSPECTIVE 20.2The Beauty of Helen
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The Beauty of Helen
• Helen represents the ideal of feminine beauty and has inspired poets and painters since the Greek myth was first told.
• The perspective includes two short excerpts, one of Christopher Marlowe, and another of Edgar Allan Poe.
• See the chapter Perspective module on the companion website for links to images of Helen.
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THE TROJAN WARThe Anger of Achilles
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The Anger of Achilles
• Chryses• Chryseïs• Briseïs• Achilles nearly kills Agamemnon, but goes
away when Athena intervenes• Pleads to his mother Thetis to ask Zeus to
make the Greek suffer
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The Anger of Achilles
• Iliad, 1.68 – • timê and geras
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THE TROJAN WARHector and Andromachê
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Hector and Andromachê
• Hector’s scene with his wife Andromachê and their infant son, Astyanax
• This scene, and other such domestic scenes, suggests that Homer was very sympathetic to the fate of Troy and its warriors
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THE TROJAN WAREmbassy to Achilles
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Embassy to Achilles
• After things go badly for the Greeks, Agamemnon repents and sends Ajax, Odysseus and Phoenix to Achilles to try to persuade him to come back
• He rejects their gifts and petition
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Embassy to Achilles
• The Greeks are nearly defeated• Achilles allows his friend Patrocles to go into
battle in his armor• Patrocles is killed by Hector
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Fig. 20.7 Embassy to Achilles
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Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich
THE TROJAN WARThe Death of Hector
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The Death of Hector
• Achilles gets new armor• His slaughter is so great that the river god
Scamander takes after Achilles and nearly kills him
• Eventually he kills Hector in single combat• He abuses the body of Hector
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The Death of Hector
• But Achilles relents when Priam visits him and lets him take his body back for burial
• The Iliad ends with a line about the burial of Hector– This is the symbolic end of Achilles’s anger
which started the epic
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Fig. 20.8Duel of Achilles and Hector
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Fig. 20.9The Ransom of Hector
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Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien oder KHM, Wien
OBSERVATIONSHomer, Inventor of Plot and Character
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Plot and Character
• The Iliad is a story about something – Achilles’s anger – and ends when his anger is released
• Thus it has a plot and isn’t just “one darn thing after another”
• His characters aren’t just action figures; they express their inner selves in action
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