illiad Flashcards
book 1
chryses had his daughter (chryseis) taken by agamemnon, asks smintheus apollo for help and he sends a plague, after 9 days achilles asks calchas to explain and he says that it’s agamemnon’s fault and they need to make an offering on chryse to stop the plague, agamemnon gets pissed and takes achilles’s concubine (briseis), achilles says he wont fight anymore and leaves, odysseus goes to chryse, talhybius and eurybates get briseis, achilles prays to thetis to have agamemnon punished
chryses’s description book 1
wearing ribbons of apollo and holding a golden staff
when agamemnon got chryseis
after sacking hypoplacian thebes, where etion ruled
hephaestus book 1
calms hera down when her and zeus argue over the agamemnon/briseis thing, stumbles when acting as cupbearer
book 2
zeus sends a false dream to agamemnon in the form of nestor, saying troy isnt getting destroyed, everyone gathers for an assembly and hera tells atrytone athena to get aodysseus to speak up and motivate the greeks to not leave, lowkey ugly ass thersites rolls up and insults agamemnon and then odysseus beats him with a staff, then reminds ppl of calchas’s prophecy, nestor then hypes everyone up to keep up morale, iris flies to priam’s gate in the form of his son polites and tells him to get to action and hector recognizes her and gets the army ready
elphenor book 2
son of chalcodon, descendant of ares, led the abantes, known for wearing long hair behind them and carried spears of ash-wood
mnestheus book 2
son of peteus, known as the best charioteer and handler of the shield, except for nestor
menelaus book 2
led men from lacedaemon, led 60 ships
nireus book 2
son of charopus and aglaia, most handsome man after achilles, led men from syme, 3 ships
where the trojan army gathered book 2
hill of bateia
book 3
trojan and greek armies approach each other(?), paris steps forth wearing panther skin and challenges the best of the greeks to 1v1, menelaus steps forth and paris hides, menelaus has ppl bring 2 sheep a white ram and a black ewe to sacrifice to helios and gaea, paris and menelaus duel, paris almost loses and goest back to helen and she says she wished he would’ve died bc he lost sm aura saying hes better than menelaus and then almost dies in 1v1, paris begs to get laid
servants of helen
aethra daughter of pittheus and ox-eyed clymene
paris and menelaus duel book 3
paris gets ready wearing the armor plate thing of his bro lycaon, menelaus throws a spear that goes thru paris’s whole shield but doesnt kill him bc paris swerves, menelaus brings his sword down of paris’s helmet and it breaks, menelaus then starts to choke paris by his helmet but aphrodite intervines and whisks him away
book 4
hera tells zeus to have athena break the truce, athena goes to pandarus in the form of laodocus, tells pandarus to break the truce by aiming for menelaus bc he will get a ton of gifts if he kills him and that he should pray to apollo, pandarus takes up him bow made of a wild ibex, prays to apollo b4 shooting and hits the belt of menelaus, agamemnon gives speech abt fucking up the trojans, armies meet, first death is echepolus killed by antilochus
zeus to hera book 4
tells her off for wanting to destroy troy so badly and then says he can destroy it if she doesnt interfere when he wants to destroy other cities
