Book 6 Flashcards
Name
Hector and Andromache
the battle continues
WITHOUT DIVINE INTERFERENCE
The Greeks kill
fourteen trojans
Menelaus, Agamemnon and the captive
Menelaus captures Adrestus who supplicates him. Agamemnon shouts disapproval and kills Adrestus
saying the will kill the Trojans down to the babies in their mothers wombs
-Homer calls this sound advice
The Advice given to Hector and Aeneas
Helenus, Troy’s best prophet tells Hector and Aeneas to regroup the troops in front of the gates.
Tells Hector to tell their mother to collect the older women at the temple of Athene and to gift her her most precious robe as well as to promise a sacrife
The honorable exchange
Glaucus and Diomedes meet to do battle
Diomedes refuses to fight him if he is descended of a god
Glaucus replies “the family of man is like the leaves of the trees” and tells Diomedes about his parentage
Diomedes mentions how his grandfather and Belephron were guest friends
-they exchange armour
Glaucus gets the worst of the deal
Zeus robbed Glaucus of his wits, his golden Armour (100 oxen worth) for Diomedes’s bronze one (9 oxen worth)
When Hector reaches the Scaen gate
he is approached by WIVES AND DAUGHTERS asking about their sons, brothers, husbands, friends
-Hector tells them to pray to Zeus
what does Hector refuse from Hecabe
he refuses Hecabe’s offer of wine
What Hector tells Hecabe
to go with offerings to Athene’s temple with the biggest, most precious robe
to pray to have pity on the town
What does Hecabe pray for
Diomedes death
Athene’s response to their prayers
she shakes her head
Where is Paris found
surrounded by Helen and her ladies, examining his superb armour and bow
-Helen again wishes his death
what does Hector refuse from Helen
he will not be persuaded to sit down
he wishes to see his family as he is unsure whether he will ever see them again
Where had Andromache gone
up Ilium’s great tower to weep for the men
Andromache’s and Hector’s meeting
crying she puts her hand in Hector’s
says that she might as well be dead when he is
her father, mother, 7 brothers are all dead
wants him to stay
[Achilles cremated Eetion, Andromache’s father]
why Hector refuses to stay
he does not want to appear as a coward
he has been trained to win GLORY for himself and his father
What upsets HEctor
is not the destruction of Troy that he foretells
but of Andromache’s loss of freedom
he wishes to be dead before that day
Astynax’s reaction to HEctor
he shrinks back with a cry, he is terrified by Hector bronze helmet
Hector and Andromache both laugh
Hector’s hopes for Astynax
he prays that he becomes mightier than he, better than his father who brings “home the bloodstained armour of the enemy he has killed and delight his mothers heart”
Hector and Andromache’s goodbye
Andromache laughs through her tears Hector calls her "Dear Heart" He talks about inescapable death tells her to work with the loom and the spindle war is mens' business
Andromache after HEctor leaves
Andromache keeps looking back
gets the women to lament, believing Hector would never return
Paris running to meet Hector
compared to a horse who knows how beautiful he is laughing as he ran
Hector and Paris
Hector shows love for Paris, he calls him courageous, says the hurtful things the Trojans say about Paris distresses him
The meaning of Glaucus and Diomedes meaning
it is a chivalric encounter
the obligations of universal guest friendship
heightens Paris’s dishonour
Hector’s portrayal in this book
as the one savior of Troy
Andromache believes this will kill HEctor
“this determination of yours will be the death of you”
