Heroism in the Iliad
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- Created on: 11-04-22 11:21
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- Homeric Hero Values
- Achilles
- his prophecy
- he knows he will die at Troy.
- there is little point in receiving Ag's gifts in Book 9
- given the opportunity to live a quiet life or die on the battlefield, winning eternal glory
- he knows he will die at Troy.
- being given treasure without winning it is not heroic
- a highly skilled warrior, kills many people
- I am the son of a great man, a goddess was my mother. Yet death and inexorable destiny are waiting for me
- sacrificed 12 Trojans during Patroclus' funeral
- Mutilating Hectors body and refusing to return it to the Trojans
- his prophecy
- Hector
- More motivated to protect his country - duty
- to not fight for Troy would be a worse honour
- Book 22 - needs to face Achilles despite his parents begging him not to
- Book 6 - Andromache begs him to not return to war - refuses
- to not fight for Troy would be a worse honour
- taking Patroclus' armour (Achilles)
- a very skilful warrior, kills many people
- running away from Achilles Book 22
- More motivated to protect his country - duty
- Book 10
- Diomedes and Odysseus are motivated by time and kleos
- killing the Thracians as they slept is unheroic
- Book 23
- expensive prizes are handed out to the victors
- eg Agamemnon given a long-shadowed spear and an unused cauldron in the spear contest
- expensive prizes are handed out to the victors
- Paris
- is rebuked by Hector for starting the war, but not properly participating in it
- Agamemnon
- motivated by the glory of defeating Troy
- Diomedes
- Diomedes, after being rebuked for not being as great as his father, goes on an aristeia (book 5)
- Achilles
- Jenkyns: Disastrous error
- Haubold: Impending doom becomes tangible
- Hector is utterly isolated and for the first time he panics and runs for his life
- Graziosi: wants to win glory for himself and his own father
- Donlon: constantly forced to subordinate his own desire to the common good... he is not good enough to war off Troy's destruction but he hopes
- Taplin: Hector loses, and yet still wins immortal fame
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