Books 22 and 24 of the iliad

These funeral games are very revealing in terms of the character of each of the greek. Check out our revolutionary side byside summary and analysis. Achilles routs the trojans and splits their ranks, pursuing half of them into the river known to the gods as xanthus and to the mortals as. Murray 1 so they throughout the city, huddled in rout like fawns, were cooling their sweat and drinking and quenching their thirst, as they rested on the fair battlements. Hektor loses his courage and flees, running around the city three times. Since students have the context of the iliad and need time to process the complex language of the excerpts, they are reading the excerpts from the iliad. Ultimately, the games function for the reader much as they do for the characters as a diversion from grief. Agamemnons rejection of chryses in book i leads to all of the events of the iliad. Iliad, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient greek poet homer. I read both books aloud to my 10 year old, 7 year old, and 4 year old sons, and we all enjoyed them. Both his mother and his father attempt to convince him to come inside the walls. The first scene of the iliad finds chryses, the priest of apollo god of the sun and a whole lot of other stuff, approaching the achaian camp to ask for his daughter back. Homers epic poem the iliad tells the story of the trojan war and the epic heroes and gods, including achilles, hector, odysseus, athena, ares, paris. Many people have noted connections between the last book and the first because both involve a father seeking the return of a child.

Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Quite a few comments have been posted about the iliad. Homer, iliad book 22 theoi classical texts library. Book 24 is a portrait of grief, from anger to compassion. The iliad ends with the burial of hektor to emphasize the moral redemption. Kline after he slays hector in book 22, achilles prepares patroclus ceremonial funeral. Can you identify different episodes or passages that reflect on suffering in ways that are similar or different. The games at patrocluss funeral serve primarily as a buffer between two climactic eventsthe death of hector and his burial.

If you would like to check your knowledge of book 22 from the iliad, use the quizworksheet combo. This is one of the few times when this happens, and it is interesting that hektor says it out of excitement wanting the moment to last forever instead of despair at a moment passing. Charles simmons, the metamorphoses of ovid, books xiii and xiv. How, specifically, does the iliad comment on human suffering. The quarrel between achilles and agamemnon in book 1 of homers iliad sets in motion a. Up to this point achilles has been stuck in anger fed by grief.

Last class, students identified achilles as someone controlled by his anger, not reason. The wrath of achilles is finally assuaged in book xxiv. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century bc, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the greek language, making it the first work of european literature. In our study of books 18, 22, and 24 of the iliad, we focus on how achilles anger drives his actions. Accordingly, they serve little purpose in the storys plot. These free notes consist of about 101 pages 30,062 words and. Iliad frontispiece of homers the iliad, translated by john ogilby, 1660.

Rage goddess, sing the rage of peleus son achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the achaeans countless losses hurling down to the house of death so many sturdy souls, great fighters souls, but made their bodies carrion feats for the dogs and birds and the will of zeus was moving towards its end. Thus the trojans in the city scared like fawns wiped the sweatfrom off them and drank to quench their thirst leaning against thegoodly battlements. The iliadbook 22 the boxes and the by homer questions at. Book i 47k book ii 63k book iii 36k book iv 42k book v 66k book vi 42k book.

The iliad has been divided into the following sections. In the lesson outlined below, students engage in independent reading and reader response for the iliad books 22 and 24. Achilles pursues him thrice round the walls of troy. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of achilles, the best of the achaeans, over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result. The iliad, together with the odyssey, is one of two ancient greek epic poems traditionally attributed to homer.

Hermes appeared and grabbed priam and his sons dead corpse and. The help of the gods motherly love apollo attacks later on, priam stayed the night behind achilles hut. Homer, iliad book 24 theoi classical texts library. Hektor can escape behind the walls of the city, face achilleus unarmed while offering gifts, or stand up to fight him. Book 22 hector now stands as the only trojan left outside troy. The battle between hektor and achilles brings about a reconsideration of two ideas that have been implicit throughout the iliad. In book 6 hectors humanity is shown as he shares a loving moment with his wife, andromache, and his son astyanax.

The focus of the short quiz primarily concerns the plot of book 22. When the greeks burn patroclus body, they also hold elaborate athletic contests, a custom in funeral services for distinguished men book 23. Hector consults within himself what measures to take. Here is a new loeb classical library edition of homers stirring heroic account of the trojan war and its passions. It is a curious fact about the iliad that, for all its focus on the theme of death, it rarely shows characters longing for immortality. What are the main differences between achilles and hector in book 22. Without the help of achilles the greeks forces are annihilated by the trojans led by their greatest warrior hector, the son of the trojan king, priam. Achilles singlehandedly splits the trojan forces, driving one half towards the city and one half into the river. The iliad by homer, part of the internet classics archive. The point is, now that you know what the things are, its high time we jumped into the middle of them. Murray 1 then was the gathering broken up, and the folk scattered, each man to go to his own ship.

Books sixteen to twentytwo all quotations from the iliad are from the translation of richmond lattimore, university of chicago press, 1951like book nine, book sixteen marks a crucial turning point in the iliad. Hera sends a mist to confuse and slow the retreat of the men going back towards the city. Apollo reveals himself as a god to achilles, letting. The trojans, having fled like a herd of frightened deer, now leant on the battlements around the city, drying the sweat from their bodies, and quenching their thirst, as the greeks approached the wall, their shields at the slope. Priam, overlooking the battlefield from the trojan ramparts, begs him to come inside, but hector, having given the overconfident order for the trojans to camp outside their gates the night before, now feels too ashamed to join them in their retreat.

Look at the interaction between priam and hektor at the beginning of book 22. Set during the trojan war, the tenyear siege of the city of troy ilium by a coalition of greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the. It takes the trojan war as its subject, though the greek warrior achilles is its primary focus. Some of the competitions, however, especially the chariot race, provide some drama, but none of the events of book 24 hinge on their outcome. At the beginning of the section apollo calls him that man without a shred of decency in his heart, all brute force and wild pride, and no shame that does great harm or drives men on to good. After the funeral games, the men left the assembly and scattered each to their own. The first idea is the conflict between the values symbolized by the two warriors. Pdf downloads of all 1296 litcharts literature guides, and of every new one we publish. Achilles follows the trojans into the river, hacking them to pieces with his sword. Homers epic poem the iliad tells the story of the trojan war and the epic heroes and gods. Achilles continues in his mourning of patroclus and abuse of the body of hector. Book 23 of the iliad is taken up completely by the depiction of the funeral games held by achilles to honor the fallen patroclus. Hector remains outside of the scaean gates, barring the way into troy. Achilles kindness to priam in book xxiv ends the warriors wrath and.