Book 23 Flashcards
Name
The funeral and the Games
The Myrmidons
led by Avchilles in their lamentations
they drive their chariots round Patroclus three times
Achilles’s treatment of Hector
flings him down on his fave by Patroclus’s bier “foully maltreated”
Achilles oath about burial
swears the oath before Agamemnon that he will not wash till Patroclus is cremated and buried
Achilles’s dream
PAtroclus visits him and asks him to bury him as quickly as possible
asks to be buried with Achilles
Patroclus vanishes gibbering before Achilles can touch him, he weeps
THe next day Achilles is found
found at dawn still mourning
Achilles’s hair for the cremation
he cuts of a lock dedicated to the river Spercheus, Peleus had wanted it chopped off upon Achilles’s return, he chops it because he will never return
Patroclus’s cremation
calls upon the winds to light the fire many sheep killed two jars of honey and oil four horses two of Patroclus's nine dogs twelve Trojans "murderously"
The gods take care of Hector’s body
Aphrodite anoints his body with Ambrosial oil of roses
Apollo covers him in a cloud so he would not wither in the sun
Achilles weeping over Patroclus
wept like a father mourning his son who has died and left his parents inconsolable
The point of the funeral games
lots of arguing
Achilles proves to be a fair judge
The horse race Eumelus
Eumelus comes last as his horses crash but he drags the chariot
Achilles suggests giving first prize to diomedes the winner and second to Eumelus
The horse race Antilochus
Antilochus Nestor’s son had come second through tactics and argues he should still get second prize
Achilles agrees and finds a different prize for Eumelus
The horse race Menelaus
angry, argues Antilochus cut in front of him
Antilochus give him his prize (a mare)
Menelaus pleased given him back the mare since h has worked hard on his behalf (how Achilles and Agamemnon should have acted)
The horse race and Nestor
Achilles gives Nestor a prize for nothing
The wrestling
stops the wrestling between Odysseus and Ajax and calls them both winners
The foot race
Ajax winning
Odysseus prays for Athene’s help
he becomes lighter and Ajax trips up
Ajax makes a light hearted joke about Athene being like Odysseus’s mother the Greeks laugh
Antilochus the looser says it is hard to beat Odysseus for any but Achilles
Achilles doubles Antilochus’s prize of gold
Combat
Ajax Diomedes
Ajax loses his spear
all the Greeks are afraid for him and stop the batle
ARchery
Teucer did not pray to Apollo so only hit the cord, as the bird flies away Meriones quickly shoots the bird because he promised a sacrifice to Apollo under his breath
Spear throwing
Achilles says to Agamemnon
“we know by how much you excel the rest of us” and gives him the first prize without the competition starting”
The point of the dream
the necessity of burial is made clear
a miserable image of the afterlife is painted
Achilles trying to hold onto Patroclus wants to live really, doesn’t need glory
