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The Iliad questions & quotes

 nd how does it compare and contrast with Q1: What is the role of women in the Iliad a the other works we have read this semester? Q2: Clearly guest friendship is an essential aspect of ancient Greek culture, e.g. the exchange of armor between Glaukos and Diomedes; what is the purpose of including this cultural norm in the epic and to what extent does it develop characteristics of the characters portrayed? How is guest friendship (xenia) similar or different in the various texts we have read? (examples: The Iliad, Odyssey, Histories) Short passages: Quote 3: “and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians, hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished” (1.1-5) Quote 2: "Ah me,my child, your birth was bitterness. Why did I raise you? If only you could sit by your ships untroubled, not weeping, since indeed your lifetime is to be short, of no length. Now it has befallen that your life must be brief and bitter beyond all men's. To a bad destiny I bore you in my chambers." (1.413-418) --(Thetis to Achilleus) There is a prophecy for Achilleus stating he can either win great glory on the battlefield and but die young or live a nice, long life with a family, but be forgotten. Quote 3: (Hektor to Andromache) “Why does your heart sorrow so much for me? No man is going to hurl me to Hades, unless it is fated, but as for fate, I think no man has yet escaped it once it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward.” (6.486-489) Quote 4: (Zeus describing Achilleus’ fate)

“then the Father balanced his golden scales, and in the them he set two fateful portions of death, which lays men prostrate, one for Achilleus, and one for Hektor, breaker of horses, and balanced it by the middle; and Hektor’s death day was heavier and dragged downward toward death, and Phoibos Apollo forsook him” (Lattimore, 22.209-14, 462-63) Long passages: “Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. Nothing is won for me, now that my heart has gone through its afflictions in forever setting my life on the hazard of battle… Why must the Argives fight with the Trojans? And why was it the son of Atreus assembled and led here these people? Was it not for the sake of lovely-haired Helen?” (9.318-339, 224-225) (Achilleus to Odysseus) “If you are willing that we accomplish a complete funeral for great Hektor, this, Achilleus, is what you could do and give me pleasure… Nine days we would keep him in our palace and mourn him, and bury him on the tenth day, and the people feast by him, and on the eleventh day we would make the grave-barrow for him, and on the twelfth day fight again; if we must do so” (24.660-667, 515) (Priam to Achilleus)...