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Homer’s Iliad
Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture
Final Preliminaries
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Review: Mesopotamia,Phoenicia, Crete, Cyprus, Delphi, Peloponnesus, Ionia
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Aulis
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Review: Knossos, Mycenae, Pylos
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Mycenae – Palace Megaron
Cf. Megaron at Pylos, Palace of Nestor
Mycenae – Demons?
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The Trojan War: The Gods
Note: the Greek gods live on mythical Mt Olympus.
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ZEUSSky God. King of the Gods. Son of Kronos.
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HERAMarried Women. Queen of the gods. Zeus’ “wife”.
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APOLLOArcher god. God of plague and medicine. God of music and arts. Sister is
Artemis, also an archer god.
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ATHENA (PALLAS ATHENA)Virgin “sprung fully armed from the head of Zeus.”
Wisdom. Warrior. Helmet, Aegis (breastplate). Patron of Athens.
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ARES
God of War. Consort (“husband”) of Aphrodite.
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APHRODITE Goddess of sexual love.
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HEPHAISTOS
Smithy god (blacksmith). God of crafts and fire. Lame.
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THETIS (one of the Nereids, the 50 daughters of Nereus, the old
man of the sea; mother of Achilles by Peleus)
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The Trojan War: Background Stories
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Background: The Story of the Trojan War !
Marriage of Peleus and Thetis !
Strife (Eris) and the apple: "to the fairest" !
Judgement of Paris !
Abduction of Helen !
Assembly of the Greek army at Aulis !
Sacrifice of Iphigeneia !
The siege: 9 years plus 1 !
Fall of Troy: the Trojan horse
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Greek Stories
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
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Greek Stories
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Eris (Strife) and the apple: "to the fairest"
Judgement of Paris
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Greek Stories
Judgement of Paris (or Alexander, son of Priam)
Hera, Athena,
Aphrodite
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Greek Stories
Judgement of Paris (or Alexander, son of Priam)
Hera, Athena,
Aphrodite
Hera: Kingdom
Athena: Success in War
Aphrodite: Most Beautiful Woman
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Greek Stories
Aphrodite: Most Beautiful Woman
Abduction of Helen
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Greek Stories
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
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Greek Stories
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Son: ACHILLES
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Homer: The Gods!!
Trojan supporters!•Aphrodite (won the judgement of Paris) •Ares (lover of Aphrodite, rival of Athena)
•Apollo (traditional friend of Troy) •Artemis (sister of Apollo)
•Scamander (river of the Troad, fights Hephaistos) •Leto (mother of Apollo and Artemis)
!Greek supporters!
•Hera (lost the judgement of Paris) •Athena (lost the judgement of Paris)
•Poseidon (traditional friend of Troy, but denied payment by Laomedon after building the walls: but he helps Aeneas in Book 20)
•Hephaistos (friend of Thetis) •Hermes (fights Leto)
!Wenjia Liu: “it can be inferred that Apollo and Hera are supporters of the Trojans, but why?” Ted Tao: “why has Hera helped Achilles so many times?” “Why does
Hera not want Zeus to help the Trojans?”
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Background: The Story of the Trojan War !
Marriage of Peleus and Thetis !
Strife (Eris) and the apple: "to the fairest" !
Judgement of Paris !
Abduction of Helen !
Assembly of the Greek army at Aulis !
Sacrifice of Iphigeneia !
The siege: 9 years plus 1 !
Fall of Troy: the Trojan horse
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!Greeks!
!Agamemnon, "king of kings", son of Atreus ("Atrides")
Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen, son of Atreus Achilles, king of the Myrmidons, son of Peleus and Thetis
Patroclus, dear friend (second self?) to Achilles Nestor, the old wise man
Calchas, the seer !
Trojans!!
Priam, the old Trojan king, father of 50 sons Hector, the greatest warrior, & son of Priam
Paris (=Alexander), son of Priam, abductor of Helen !
Important only in Book one!!
Chryses, the priest (confusingly, from Chryse island) Chryseis, the daughter of Chryses & prize of Agamemnon
Briseis, prize of Achilles !
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Structure of the army!!
Primus inter pares: "first among equals": kings vs the "king of kings" Culture of raiding parties: thus the "prizes" Chryseis and Briseis: distribution of the prizes
Yi Liu: “you cannot imagine this in ancient China, since the emperor is so powerful that no one can ever disobey.’ Lingfei Zhou, “This hierarchy is kind of
like democracy”(!).
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Homer’s Iliad
Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture
Book 1
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The Story of the Iliad
The Trojan War: 10 years
The Iliad: 52 days, concentrating on 5 days, set in the 9th year of the war
Iliad as poetic text: narrative technique
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Homer’s Iliad
Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture
Book 1 !
First, a literary analysis from a moderately informed modern viewpoint
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Proem and opening scene
The opening scene: proem, the priest's appeal and the plague: startlingly modern narrative technique (the poet jumps in medias res)
What do we learn in the opening scene? About Agamemnon? About men and their relations to the gods?
!What is the tone?
!What is the setting?
Book 1
Wenjia Liu: “line 5 reads ‘For such is the will of Zeus.’ but what is Zeus’s will?”:Lingfei Zhou: “The depiction of Achilles and Agamemnon appears very real and
vivid. … we can understand their feelings without any historical or even transitional obstacles.””
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!Why is Agamemnon so stubborn? Why in particular is he so quick to "go ballistic"
in response to (a) Calchas? (b) Achilles? !
Why in turn in Achilles so resentful, bitter, frustrated? Why does he decide to give in to Agamemnon?
!In what sense is Agamemnon "stronger" than Achilles? In what sense is Achilles
"stronger" than Agamemnon? !
What about the interference of Athena? What about the detail of the sword? What about the detail of the staff? (T.S. Eliot: "objective correlative")
Book 1
The argument
Yuyi Zhou: “What would make Achilles so angry just because of a girl being taken?” Shuo Wang wants to see this and other elements of the tale as a story of
“endurance” (persuasion? obedience?) Jerry Guan wants to see the story of Helen behind the focus on the stealing of the girls (“war trophies” - Lingfei)
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Relationship between Hera and Zeus: what is this all about? does the humor and humanness surprise you? why?
!The intervention of Hephaestus: why does Hera smile? why do the gods laugh?
(Ganymede, cup bearer of the gods) !
In what ways do the actions of the gods in book one mirror those of the men? In what ways is the world of the gods distinct?
!What does that tell us of what is essential about the moral condition? Note the contrast between Apollo in the opening scene ("Apollo, the archer god") and Apollo in the closing scene (nec semper arcum tendit Apollo, Apollo does not
always use his bow") !
Book 1
The closing scene
Lingfei Zhou: Zeus and Hera: “not like a divine relationship but a pretty mundane one.” Qin Li: “What is the hierarchy in Olympus?”
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Iliad: the Proem