KLEOS Flashcards

1
Q

KLEOS EXAMPLE 1 🫵🏾
1) Concept?
2) Where?(s)
3) Point
4) Link

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1) Identity- Odysseus = control story/kleos
2) BOOK 9-12 as he tells story on Schleria to Phaeacian’s
3) **Cyclops/Sirens/Scylla/Charybdis/Underworld **
- Bravery + metis + strategic thinking + only guy to hear sirens + KATABASIS
- Calypso + Poseidon + Circe = Gods interested 💗
4) Establish self as great Greek hero + earn respect of royals and people

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KLEOS EXAMPLE 2 🦸🏼‍♂️
1) Concept?
2) Where?
3) Details?
4) Link

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1) Serious concern for Greek Heroes
2) -Agamemnon- “most pitiful end” (11)
- BOOK 5 Odysseus laments storm leaving Cals “Achaean would’ve spread my name abroad” + “ignoble death”
- Elpenor
- Achilles’ epithet “strongest of Achaeans” = outlasts death

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KLEOS EXAMPLE 3 👠
1) Concept?
2) Where?
3) Details?
4) Link

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1) Desire + consequence- Reveals a lot about Kleos as concept
2) BOOK 9- Odysseus enters the Cyclops + blinds Polyphemus + ‘Nobody’
3) -Desire for kleos in gifts…
- Gets away but again desire for kleos = gives name + Ithca
4) Desire for kleos/material wealth = negatively influences plot (🌊)

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