Hello all,
After much debating within my own mind, and some discussion with the Honors Council, we decided to resort to good ol' Blogspot for our blogs this semester. This is a place for you to share your (original) thoughts about what we've read and/or discussed in class. This is NOT a place for fighting, being rude, spamming or for profanity of any kind.
Therefore, you need to make an account, and follow this blog, then send me the email address that you used for your account(Leave it as a comment), and I will invite you to be an author via email.
YOU WILL BE GRADED ON THESE BLOGS. There is a blog due every Thursday. If there has not been a post from you by Thursday, you will receive a zero. You must also comment on someone else's blog by Thursday. It will count as part of your blog grade. Failure to comment will result in a lower grade for your blog that week. At the end of your own blog, please let us know whose blog you commented on(Person's name and the Post name, please).
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Okay so just a few comments about chapters 7-12 so far.
ReplyDeleteThese are subject to change, but these are my thoughts at the moment.
1) The gods seem to ALWAYS contradict themselves. This is very evident in Apollo's case when you couple Book Seven, line 40 with line 271. He just can't stand to let the mortals fight alone. None of the gods can. This includes Zeus, who still interferes with combat more indirectly (lightning, etc) even after barring the "lesser" gods from interference.
2) This leads me to, at times, see kleos in only the mortals. Book Seven, line 242: Hektor wants to fight fairly, and strike a blow which may be seen by Aias. Later, a form of respect, which may be seen as honor, can be seen in the break from fighting to respect the dead. They respect the honorable fighters who have died.
3) Zeus gets zero respect, and deservedly so. Apollo deflects an arrow in Book 8, line 311, after receiving orders to refrain from interference. Hera and Athene do not even want to listen to Zeus. They see him as a contradiction within himself. This is completely understandable. Zeus seems to be the only god who will not support a single side. Granted, this may show his wisdom of something the others do not know. However, the mere fact that he also interferes in battle and doesn't hold to his word of punishment for the gods' interference shows me that he has a complete inner contradiction.
In book 8, Agamemnon becomes defeated and tells his men that he wants to go home. So he prays to Zeus to let them escape unharmed. But Zeus instead sends down an eagle with a fawn in it's claws. So when Agamemnon sees this, he and his men turn back to fight the Trojans. Why does this happen? What does the eagle with a fawn in it's claw represent? And also like WIll said above, why does Zeus help him? I thought that he was on the Trojan's side?
ReplyDeleteHere are my thoughts about it so far,
ReplyDelete1) In book 7, it talks about how Antenor suggest that Helen be returned to Menelaos. Paris does not consent to this, but does, however agree to restore all of Helen's property to Menelaos. I wonder, what does Helen think about this? I know she is apparently a war-prize, but does she love one over the other? And if so, i question why she couldn't just pick who she chooses to be with? Or is this a matter of her position as a war-prize?
2) In book 11, Agamemnon and Achaean's go into battle very strong but then soon quickly many of them get wounded and are no longer able to fight. Achilles gets worried, and i think it is a good idea that Nestor tells Patroklos to convince Achilles to keep fighting. And then when they have the idea to let Patroklos put on Achilles armor to try to trick the trojans that Achilles is back in battle, I think this is good and bad for Achilles. One, they can alter the trojans by tricking or confusing them but then he looses Patroklos in battle.
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