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Book 24 Flashcards

1
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Book Name

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Priam and Achilles

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Achilles’s daily routine

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unable to sleep he would drive his chariot with Hector on the back round Patroclus’s grave mound three times

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The gods dont abandon Hector

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Apollo protects HEctors body in his golden Aegis

They want him saved (except Hera, Poseidon, Athene)

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Apollo’s proposition

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on the twelth day Apollo says the gods are being unfar to HEcctor who had always sacrificed to them and that Hector is just being disrespectfull

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The status of Hector and Achilles

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The gods agree that HEctor is a mere mortal and vastly below Achilles in superiority, there is no comparison

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6
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Zeus’s plan

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stops Hera and Apollo’s arguing plans for Priam to ransom the body

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Zeus to Thetis

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Thetis is found wailing about Achilles
Zeus tells her to tell Achilles the gods are displeased with him and that he will send Iris to Priam to try and ransom Hector with Gifts

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Achilles’s reaction to Zeus’s proposition

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he replies that if the message comes from Zeus he will complie withought hesitation

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9
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Iris’s visit to Priam

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tells him to ransom Hector with gifts
he must go alone except for one older herald
to have no fear
HErmes will protect them till he is in the company of Achilles

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Hecabe to Priam

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tries to stop him going, but he says she will not change his mind
asks him to make a libation to Zeus and call for an omen
Zeus sends an eagle

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Priam to his sons

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shouts at his osns calling them cowards
and wishing they had died instead of HEctor
-they load a chariot with the immense ransom

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12
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Priam sets out with

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Idaeus

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Priam and Idaeus first spot

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Hermes in the form of a young man, they are taken with fear believing they will be killed

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Hermes introduces himself

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reminds the reader it is night time
adresses Priam as father telling him he reminds him of his own father
Priam calls Hermes DEar child

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15
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Who does Hermes claim to be

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Achilles’s attendant

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16
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Hermes praises HEctor

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says his body is unharmed beacause the gods are takeing care of him

17
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Hermes reveals himself

advice

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when he has got Priam to Achilles’s hut he reveals himself

tells him to supplicate Achilles invoking hismother, father and son.

18
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Priams actions towards Achilles

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kisses the hands of the killer of so many of his sons and speaks of Hector and compares himself to Peleus in their misery

19
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The weeping

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Priam cries about Hector, Achilles cries about Peleus

20
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Achilles tlaks about the fourtunes and misfortunes of Peleeus

A

he was showered in fourtune and welath
lordship over the myrmidons
goddess for his wife but only a single son destined for an untimely death, who will die away in Troy

21
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Priam pushes Achilles to far

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asks to see Hector immediatly, Achilles gets angry and tells him not to ppush him to far or he may break the commands of Zeus

22
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When Achilles prepares Hector for Priam

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he groans and asks Patroclus not to be indignant about accepting a ransom

23
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Achilles shows to be a good guest

A

prepares food for Priam

24
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Priam and AChilles gace on eachother in admiration

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priam notices Achillesis large and handsome, the very image of the gods
Achilles notices Priams noble looks and utterance of Dardanian Priam

25
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The peace betweeen Priam and aChilles

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they agreee on 11 days peace for HEctor’s funeral

26
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Achilles sleeps

A

with Briseis

27
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Hermes returns to Priam

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He is UNABLE TO SLEEP, cannot figure out how to get Priam out, decides to wake him up and tell him to escape

28
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When Priam is spotted

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first spotted by Cassandra
she alerts everybody
Ilium is emptied for people coming to see HEctor

29
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HEctor is taken into the palace and

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the women took up the cry

30
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Andromache’s lament

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withought Hector Troy is bound to fall. The women take up the cry

31
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HEcabe

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leads the women in a shrill lament
dearest of all her sons
dear to the gods

32
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Helen

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leads the women in a third lament

  • dearest to me of all my Trojan brothers
  • Only one but Priam to treat her kindly
33
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After the trio of womesn laments

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the vast multitudes took up the cry

34
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the first 9 days

A

wood is collected

35
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the 10th day

A

HEctor is cremated

36
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the 11th day

A

Hectors bones are collected by his crying brotherss

they are put in a golden coffin

37
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After the cremation

A

a magnificent funeral feast is prepared in their “Olympian bred ruler”’s palace

38
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last line of the book

A

“such were the funeral rites of horse taming HEctor

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