Book 24 Flashcards
Book Name
Priam and Achilles
Achilles’s daily routine
unable to sleep he would drive his chariot with Hector on the back round Patroclus’s grave mound three times
The gods dont abandon Hector
Apollo protects HEctors body in his golden Aegis
They want him saved (except Hera, Poseidon, Athene)
Apollo’s proposition
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
The status of Hector and Achilles
The gods agree that HEctor is a mere mortal and vastly below Achilles in superiority, there is no comparison
Zeus’s plan
stops Hera and Apollo’s arguing plans for Priam to ransom the body
Zeus to Thetis
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
Achilles’s reaction to Zeus’s proposition
he replies that if the message comes from Zeus he will complie withought hesitation
Iris’s visit to Priam
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
Hecabe to Priam
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
Priam to his sons
shouts at his osns calling them cowards
and wishing they had died instead of HEctor
-they load a chariot with the immense ransom
Priam sets out with
Idaeus
Priam and Idaeus first spot
Hermes in the form of a young man, they are taken with fear believing they will be killed
Hermes introduces himself
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
Who does Hermes claim to be
Achilles’s attendant
Hermes praises HEctor
says his body is unharmed beacause the gods are takeing care of him
Hermes reveals himself
advice
when he has got Priam to Achilles’s hut he reveals himself
tells him to supplicate Achilles invoking hismother, father and son.
Priams actions towards Achilles
kisses the hands of the killer of so many of his sons and speaks of Hector and compares himself to Peleus in their misery
The weeping
Priam cries about Hector, Achilles cries about Peleus
Achilles tlaks about the fourtunes and misfortunes of Peleeus
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
Priam pushes Achilles to far
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
When Achilles prepares Hector for Priam
he groans and asks Patroclus not to be indignant about accepting a ransom
Achilles shows to be a good guest
prepares food for Priam
Priam and AChilles gace on eachother in admiration
priam notices Achillesis large and handsome, the very image of the gods
Achilles notices Priams noble looks and utterance of Dardanian Priam
The peace betweeen Priam and aChilles
they agreee on 11 days peace for HEctor’s funeral
Achilles sleeps
with Briseis
Hermes returns to Priam
He is UNABLE TO SLEEP, cannot figure out how to get Priam out, decides to wake him up and tell him to escape
When Priam is spotted
first spotted by Cassandra
she alerts everybody
Ilium is emptied for people coming to see HEctor
HEctor is taken into the palace and
the women took up the cry
Andromache’s lament
withought Hector Troy is bound to fall. The women take up the cry
HEcabe
leads the women in a shrill lament
dearest of all her sons
dear to the gods
Helen
leads the women in a third lament
- dearest to me of all my Trojan brothers
- Only one but Priam to treat her kindly
After the trio of womesn laments
the vast multitudes took up the cry
the first 9 days
wood is collected
the 10th day
HEctor is cremated
the 11th day
Hectors bones are collected by his crying brotherss
they are put in a golden coffin
After the cremation
a magnificent funeral feast is prepared in their “Olympian bred ruler”’s palace
last line of the book
“such were the funeral rites of horse taming HEctor
