Book 22 Flashcards
Name of book
the death of HEctor
as the Trojans run to the ground, what is HEctor doing
deadly destiny shackled HEctor outside Ilium at the Scaen gate
Achilles at the begging
still chasing Agenor, Apollo reveals himself to Achilles who answers angrily
As Achilles runs across the plain what is he compared to
compared to Orion’s dog the brightest star that heralds no good
Priam to Hector
begs him to return
asks him to have pity on his father
Priam is worried about being eaten by his own dogs
HEcabe to Hector
pleads him because if not neither she nor her wife would ever lay him on a bier
asks him to remember what she has done for him (holds up her breasts)
Why HEctor refuses to retreat
beacause Polydamas would blame him for not takeing his advice. He does not want to be shamed. He would rather die gloriously.
Went Hector sees Achilles
In a panick starts to run round the city eith Achilles in “hot pursuit” THey circle Ilium three times
HEctor during the chase
keeps trying to make for the Dardanida gate, he now wishes to escape now that he knows death is close behind “demons of death”
Simile to describe Hector and Achilles
Achilles-hunting animals
Hector- docile ones
Dream, pursuer, purseud cannot move a limb
The gods against HEctor
Zeus holds up the scales, they sink down on Hector’s side, spelling his doom
Apollo deserts him
Athene against HEctor
tells Achilles to stop running
disguised as Hector’s brother Deiphobus tells HEctor they will stand against Achilles together
Hector speeks with Achilles
tells him that if he kills him he will only strip his body but then give the GReeks back his body
Achilles response to HEctor
Lions dont come to terms with men, the wolf doesn’t see eye to eye with the lamb- they are enemies to the end and refuses to make a truce.
The battle
Achilles misses (Athene brings him back his spear)
Hectors spear rebounds of Achilles’s shield
Hector draws his sword
Achilles sabs him in th windpipe
Hectors dying words
pleads Achilles to give up his body
Achilles refuses
The Greek treatment of Hector’s corps
they repeatedly stab it
Achilles “foully maltreated godlike Hector”
slicing into his tendons at the back of both feet, inserted leather straps which he ties to his chariot
Priam upon HEctor’s death
tries to go out of the Dardanian gate
the pople stop him
grovels in the dung
Andromache before HEctors death
had not yet heard the news
she had been weaving
had just got her waiting women to put a large cauldron on the fire for HEctors bath when he returned from the battle
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Andromache when she knows HEctor is dead
When she hears lamentation she guesses Hector death
blames his overconfidence and courage
when she sees Hector being dragged of she faints and crashes backwards
She weeps for the miseries Astynax will endure without a father
end of the book
“and the women took up the cry”
sympathy created for Hector
Zeus regrets his death
all the gods oppose him
This book creates
raw emotion generated by war
