immortals - scholarship - Iliad Flashcards
How many scholars reference the role of the immortals and relationship between immortals and mortals in the Iliad
7
What scholars reference the role of the immortals and relationship between immortals and mortals in the Iliad
- Camps
- Jones
- Yilmaz
- Powell
- Silk
- Anderson
- Wilcock
Who wrote:
“Because of their [the heroes’] mortal condition they aquire - as carefree and immortal gods cannot - the moral dignity of effort and endurance.”
Camps
What did Camps write on role of the immortals and relationship between immortals and mortals in the Iliad
“Because of their [the heroes’] mortal condition they acquire - as carefree and immortal gods cannot - the moral dignity of effort and endurance.”
Who wrote:
that to understand the ancient gods we need to divorce ourselves from the modern ones which are systematic, coherent and self-consistent as these characteristics cannot be applied. For the ancients the gods were blind forces like gravity. All one had to do was to acknowledge its power on a cliff edge.
this is partially paraphrased
Jones
What did Jones write on role of the immortals and relationship between immortals and mortals in the Iliad
that to understand the ancient gods we need to divorce ourselves from the modern ones which are systematic, coherent and self-consistent as these characteristics cannot be applied. For the ancients the gods were blind forces like gravity. All one had to do was to acknowledge its power on a cliff edge
this is paraphrased - should acknowledge the author - vital
paraphrased - cite author but dont use quote marks
Who wrote:
The gods are humanised so that the audience can empathise with them.
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
“Without their [the gods’] intervension the poem would not have continued.”
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
“Zeus’ will is the ultimate law since he is the monarch and acknowledged.”
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
“the first intevension of Apollo leads to the angering of Agamemnon and then Achilles’ withdrawing from the battle.”
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
“If the goddess Aphrodite did not intervene in the battle, Paris would have died and the Trojans would have lost the victory to the Achaeans.”
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
[Book 4 Zeus sends Athena to stir up war by breaking the truce.] “By the intervention of Athena, the war continues”
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
“If Athena had not intervened at this point, the entire plot would have been changed; without Agamemnon there will be no war and without Achilles there would be no hero and rage, thus the intervention of the gods greatly affects the plot of the whole epic.”
[Athena prevents him [Achilles] from losing his temper. Achilles doesn’t kill Agamemnon but pulls his men out of the war.]
Yilmaz
Who wrote:
“Poseidon, who actually favours the Greeks, steps in to help the Trojan [Aeneas] and intervenes to prevent Achilles from killing Aeneas, who destiny required hiim to live”
[book 20]
Yilmaz
paraphrase this one
Who wrote:
“Homer’s Iliad reflects the conflicts of the gods as similar to a conflict of humans. The Greeks and Trojans are on the point of ending the war, but the gods are not ready for this and stir them up to continue battling each other because the gods still want to resolve their own struggles, so they use the men for their own purposes. We can say that the battle turns to be a war of the gods.”
Yilmaz
