Book 18 Flashcards
Name of the Book
Achilles’s Decision
Achilles’s premonitions
senses Patroclus’s death
Antilochus confirms them
Achilles’s grief
black cloud of grief engulfed Achilles
pours dust over his head, begriming his features
“A giant of a man” lays spread out in the dust
The slaves he and Patroclus captured shrieked aloud
THetis’s lament
after hearing Achilles cry of grief
every Nereid in the sea began to lament
Thetis and Achilles meating
Achilles tells Thetis that he no longer wishes to live except to kill HEctor
Achilles calls anger
“anger…sweeter than dripping honey through his whole being like smoke”
Achilles’s decision
his anger “let it go. We must master our pride”
Decides to seek out Hector and to welcome death
Hector
chases after the fleeing Greeks carrying Patroclus’s body, Three times he grabs his feet three times the Ajax’s throw him off
Hera’s message to achilles
send Iris to tell him to go to the ditch to unnerve the Trojans
Achilles at the ditch
Athene had thrown her golden aegis around him and crowned him with a golden cloud
Achilles gives three shouts as well as Athene
Trojans thrown into unutterable chaos, 12 die there and there.
Achilles compared to
his cloud compared to a beacon sent to neighbours, to come and rescue a besieged town on an island in ships
Polydamas’s advice to HEctor
Polydamas champion in debate suggests to retreat into Ilium
Homer mentions this is sound advice
Hector’s answer to Hector
Hector refuses to retreat and suggests staying where they are, all the Greeks applaud
Homer mentions they are fools, Athene had destroyed their judgement Hector’s bad advice
Achilles compared to
a lion whose cubs have been killed by a hunter, it now tracks the hunter
Achilles will not bury Patroclus till
he brings back Hector’s head and armour
