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13 Cards in this Set
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My mother (_________) tells me tht there are two ways in which I mat meet my end (telos). If I stay here and fight, I shall not have a return (nostos)alive but my glory (kleos) will be imperishable (aphthiton);whereas if I go home my glory (kleos) will perish, but it will be long before the end (telos) shall take me.
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Iliad IX 410-414;mother Thetis; Achilles speaker; aphthiton=unwilting (flower of kleos)
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Then (__________) spoke rising in his place, and not going into the middle of the assembly. "Dannan" heroes said he, "attendants of Ares, it is well to listen...I will expound to the son of (_________), and do you other Achaeans heed me and mark me well....it was not I who was responsible (aitios); (_______) and Fate and the Eriyns that walks in darkness afflicted me with derangement (ate).
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Iliad XIX; Agamemnon=speaker. he half appologizes to Achilles; blames others for his mistake to take Briseis from Achil. Then Agamemnon spoke; the son of Peleus
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Even so did I grieve when mighty (________) was killing the Argives at their ships, and all the time I kept thinking of (______) who had so harmed me. I was blind, Zeus blind me of my reason.
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Iliad XIX; Agamemnon speaker-half appologizes to Achilles, tells ancedote of Hera and Zeus and Heracles, Achil blames others; mighty Hektor, Ate harmed him.
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We have heard in song the glories (klea) of heroes of old time, how they quarreled when they were roused to fury, but still they could be won over by gifts, and fair words could soothe them. I have in my mind (memnemai) an old story-a very old one-and you are all friends, so I will tell it.
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Pheonix=speaker speaking to Achilles...about to tell story of Meleager, moral of the story for Achilles to accept gifts from Agamemnon and fight.
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His sisters and mother and herself impored him over and over and over again, but he kept on refusing them all the more; those of his comrades who were nearest and dearest at the very doors of his chamber. Then at last his sorrowing wife detiled the horrors that befall thos who city is taken...his heard was touched,and he put on his armor to go forth. THus yielding to his hert he saved the city of Aetolians..
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Iliad IX 550-602; Phoenix tells story of Meleager to convince Achilles to rejoin battle-note philos=near and deer ones-ascending scale of affection.
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(_______) smiled as he looked at the boy, but he did not speak, and (________) stood next to him weeping and taking his hand in her own. "Dear husband" she said
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Iliad VI; Homer=narrator; Hector smiled, and Andromache stood; Andromache urges Hector not to fight, but Hector insists.
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I had seven brothers in my father's house, but on the same day they all went down into the house of Hades. (_________) killed them as they were with their sheep and cattle....O (_______) you who are father, mother, brother, and dear husband have mercy on me...
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Iliad VI; Achilles killed; O Hector; Speaker=Andromache, tries to convince Hektor not to fight.
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(_______) and his companions led the dark-eyed, luxuriant (_____________) from holy Thebes...in thips upon the salty sea. Many golden bracelets and purple robes...And the older women wailed aloud. And all the men gave forth a high-pitched song, calling (_______), the far-shooter, skilled in the lyre..
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Sappho 44: the Wedding of Hector and Andromache; speaker=Sappho Hector and his companions; Andromache; calling on Appolo, the far shooter
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key term: kleos
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glory, fame, that chich is heard, OR, the poem or song that conveys glory, fame, that which is heard
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Key term: Herakles/Hora/Hera/Heros/Heroes
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The Greek word for ntural time, nturl life, seasonality; Heros/Heroes=hero (who is unseasonal) Hera=Goddess of season
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Key term: memnemai
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'I have total recall' in special contexts and 'I remember' in normal contexts. or relive past event in present.
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phioi
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friends 'near and dear ones'
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Petrokles
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he who has the kleos of the ancestors
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