Professor Edith Hall

Roth, sing me, muse of Achilles, right? It's the 40 days that he was incredibly angry. Yeah. He's first angry with Agamemnon. He's angry with Agamemnon for almost all of that. But then he gets even angrier with Hector because Hector's killed his best friend or lover, however we like to see it, Patroclus. So he actually transfers his anger in Book 90. from Agamemnon to Hector.

Roth, sing me, muse of Achilles, right? It's the 40 days that he was incredibly angry. Yeah. He's first angry with Agamemnon. He's angry with Agamemnon for almost all of that. But then he gets even angrier with Hector because Hector's killed his best friend or lover, however we like to see it, Patroclus. So he actually transfers his anger in Book 90. from Agamemnon to Hector.

Roth, sing me, muse of Achilles, right? It's the 40 days that he was incredibly angry. Yeah. He's first angry with Agamemnon. He's angry with Agamemnon for almost all of that. But then he gets even angrier with Hector because Hector's killed his best friend or lover, however we like to see it, Patroclus. So he actually transfers his anger in Book 90. from Agamemnon to Hector.

But once he's killed Hector, we know that his own death is not far off. That is set up for us in his conversations with his mother, the sea goddess Thetis. So it's a kind of dot, dot, dot ending. Also, the very last line is, thus ended the funeral of Hector. Horse-taming is the last word, which immediately makes you think of the wooden horse, that the Trojans will not be horse-tamers for long.

But once he's killed Hector, we know that his own death is not far off. That is set up for us in his conversations with his mother, the sea goddess Thetis. So it's a kind of dot, dot, dot ending. Also, the very last line is, thus ended the funeral of Hector. Horse-taming is the last word, which immediately makes you think of the wooden horse, that the Trojans will not be horse-tamers for long.

But once he's killed Hector, we know that his own death is not far off. That is set up for us in his conversations with his mother, the sea goddess Thetis. So it's a kind of dot, dot, dot ending. Also, the very last line is, thus ended the funeral of Hector. Horse-taming is the last word, which immediately makes you think of the wooden horse, that the Trojans will not be horse-tamers for long.

It very much makes you think of the imminent ending of the war and also the death of Achilles I mean, that's a brilliant structure. So it's not a corny American movie where we've got to be told exactly what happened to everybody. It's left on this ambiguous but very dark funeral note.

It very much makes you think of the imminent ending of the war and also the death of Achilles I mean, that's a brilliant structure. So it's not a corny American movie where we've got to be told exactly what happened to everybody. It's left on this ambiguous but very dark funeral note.

It very much makes you think of the imminent ending of the war and also the death of Achilles I mean, that's a brilliant structure. So it's not a corny American movie where we've got to be told exactly what happened to everybody. It's left on this ambiguous but very dark funeral note.

Yes, but very slight and very late. We don't mention the judgment of Paris, which is what started it all, because he so offended Hera and Athena when he chose Aphrodite.

Yes, but very slight and very late. We don't mention the judgment of Paris, which is what started it all, because he so offended Hera and Athena when he chose Aphrodite.

Yes, but very slight and very late. We don't mention the judgment of Paris, which is what started it all, because he so offended Hera and Athena when he chose Aphrodite.

Yeah, which meant that he was then allowed to run away with Helen because he chose the most beautiful woman in the world. The judgment of Paris is not mentioned until Book 24, and then only very briefly, right at the end. Paris, we do have Helen in the story. She's a very important character, and we're very aware that Paris and Helen have sex in Book Three.

Yeah, which meant that he was then allowed to run away with Helen because he chose the most beautiful woman in the world. The judgment of Paris is not mentioned until Book 24, and then only very briefly, right at the end. Paris, we do have Helen in the story. She's a very important character, and we're very aware that Paris and Helen have sex in Book Three.

Yeah, which meant that he was then allowed to run away with Helen because he chose the most beautiful woman in the world. The judgment of Paris is not mentioned until Book 24, and then only very briefly, right at the end. Paris, we do have Helen in the story. She's a very important character, and we're very aware that Paris and Helen have sex in Book Three.

So that thorn in the side of the Greeks, that their beautiful Helen is actually at it inside Troy, is there. But this poem is not very much interested. In the past, for example, we don't hear about the sacrifice of a virgin hire. all those preparations.

So that thorn in the side of the Greeks, that their beautiful Helen is actually at it inside Troy, is there. But this poem is not very much interested. In the past, for example, we don't hear about the sacrifice of a virgin hire. all those preparations.

So that thorn in the side of the Greeks, that their beautiful Helen is actually at it inside Troy, is there. But this poem is not very much interested. In the past, for example, we don't hear about the sacrifice of a virgin hire. all those preparations.

We do hear about a couple of omens, but it's pretty much in the now and we don't get any real predictions of the future, except just once we're told that the plains of Troy would be completely flattened and obliterated as if nothing had ever been there, which is pretty horrific.

We do hear about a couple of omens, but it's pretty much in the now and we don't get any real predictions of the future, except just once we're told that the plains of Troy would be completely flattened and obliterated as if nothing had ever been there, which is pretty horrific.