The iliad book 6 hector and andromache parting

Start studying the iliad book 6 hector and andromache. Summary of the iliad book 6 hector and andromache free download as word doc. 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. In book 6 of the iliad, andromache is depicted as saying that her father and his seven sons were killed by achilles in cilician thebe during the trojan war.

Most commentators consider this scene to be the most moving in the iliad. The description of that interview is the subject of this translation. Achilles would also later kill andromaches husband, hector. As she cradles the child, she anxiously watches the struggle in the plain below.

Hector and helen heap scorn on him for not fighting, and at last he arms himself and returns to battle. The iliad book 7,8,9 book 6 end parting of hector from andromache and she will never see him again until he falls book 7 as long as the greeks have their shipsinfantry they can keep the trojans at bay. Hector and iliad vi deep blue university of michigan. Video book vs movie contd in the iliad, when hector finds out archilles is coming to fight him he runs around the walls of troy several times because he is so scared. For the poetry of homers language often rises to heights of incomparable beauty, as in the parting of hector from andromache, or the scene at the end of the iliad in which priam asks achilles for the body of his son. Dolon asks to be taken alive, and the achaeans use the opportunity to gather information from him. Compare his remarks here with those of hektor in book 6, lines 488489, quoted in the section on fate and free will.

Helenus, the chief augur of troy, commands hector to return to the city, in order. Zeus has promised him divine help with victory that will last until the trojans have reached the beaches and the achaian ships. May 30, 2015 provided to youtube by smithsonian folkways recordings the iliad. May 07, 2020 hectors character is drawn in most favourable colours as a good son, a loving husband and father, and a trusty friend. The farewell between hector and andromache slideshare. Then hector smiled, as he glanced at his boy in silence, but andromache came close to his side weeping, and clasped his hand and spake to him. Hector tells her he must fight so that all of troy is not destroyed.

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. Hector and andromache illiad book 6 by mary thomson on prezi. A servant tells him that she has gone to troys tower to watch the fighting. Mar 08, 2014 this feature is not available right now. Hector hurried from the house when she had done speaking, and went down the streets by the same way that he had come. Hector says he knows troy will fall and he will feel the worst pain for andromache, carried away to argos to serve under another woman.

The end of book vi is the famous scene between hector and andromache and their infant son, astyanax. Hector returns to troy, sends his mother hecuba to pray to athena, rousts out paris, and takes leave of his wife andromache and his baby son. Diomedes, son of tydeus the great greek warrior who is the focus of book 5 glaucus, trojan hero who exchanges his golden armor for diomedes bronze armor bellerophon, ancestor of glaucus hekabehecuba, wife of trojan king priam, mother of hector and many others andromache, wife of hector. Drydens account of the infant astyanax in his translation of the hector and andromache episode from book 6 of the iliad incorporates references to virgils ascanius designed to celebrate the status of james francis edward stuart who was to become the old pretender as the descendant of the two main branches of the trojan royal family. He is an especial favourite of apollo, and later poets even described him as son of. This book raises the issues of war and life beyond war. Andromaches worst fears, imagined in book 6, have now come to pass. The iliad cliffsnotes study guides book summaries, test.

The fight between trojans and achaeans was now left to rage as itwould and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain asthey aimed their. Andromache weeps for the past loss of her family to the achaeans, and asks for hector to stay within troys walls, fearing that she will become a widow. Homer, iliad book 16 theoi classical texts library. While troy s famd streams that bound the deathful plain on either side run purple to the main. Th immortals yield to human force and human skill, the field. Throughout her appearances in the iliad, andromache is portrayed as a wife and mother.

Dolon passes by the hiding diomedes and odysseus, and the pair spring upon him, chasing him down. Do you think that this attitude is consistent with his character elsewhere in the iliad. Instead, it is aeneas who takes the initiative and shows great courage, not only in going to oppose diomedes as he rages furiously, but also in the way he tries to protect the corpse of pandarus. Their cries reach the ears of andromache, who, ignorant of this, was retired into the inner part of the palace. The worst thing that can occur is trojans burn the ships because then the greeks wont be able to get supplies. This book begins by continuing the slaughter of the last two books. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache.

Andromache the mythical wife of trojan prince hector. Oct 01, 20 in book vi of the iliad homer retells the scene between hector and andromache, ending with hectors departure for battle, where valiant diomedes is killing the trojans by the dozen. In book vi of the iliad homer retells the scene between hector and andromache, ending with hectors departure for battle, where valiant. Fighting hector is a great warrior a spear and swordsman like achilles or aias. Farewell between hector and andromache bautista, cobero,dela rosa farewell between hector and andromache was based on homers epic, the iliad, which is one of the two earliest and great epics of ancient greek literature that have survived to this day. Hector and andromache from book 6 of the iliad youtube. Andromache s worst fears, imagined in book 6, have now come to pass. Hectors farewell iliad book 6 in homeric greek youtube. It is a portrait of the warrior at home, war forgotten as he watches his son play and talks with his wife. The gods having left the field, the grecians prevail. By examining these three conversations with the women of his family, which humanize hector, a realistic tension between private and public life emerges as central to. Murray 1 so was the dread strife of the trojans and achaeans left to itself, and oft to this side and to that surged the battle over the plain, as they aimed one at the other their bronzetipped spears between the simois and the streams of xanthus.

As you read through book 6 of the iliad and, for tuesdays class, book 9, be on the lookout for what are called epic similes. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache, the iliad, lit2go edition, 1899, accessed may 15, 2020. Oct 24, 2019 in book 17 of the iliad, homer mentions podes, a brother of andromache. The iliad book 7,8,9 the iliad book 7,8,9 book 6 end. In the movie, hector is strong and is prepared to fight archilles which no doubts. Hector runs to the gates, where he meets andromache and their infant son astyanax. No other trojan warrior approaches hektors courage and valor. First, the priest chryses comes to ask their leader, king agamemnon, to release his daughter, whom agamemnon was holding captive. In homeric researches 1949, kakridis observes that for the last meeting of hector and andromache and their farewell, the poet found it necessary to.

Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and. Aug 28, 2016 the episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache the gods having left the field, the grecians prevail. His leavetaking of andromache in the sixth book of the iliad, and his departure to meet achilles for the last time, are movingly described.

Andromache weeps for the past loss of her family to the achaeans, and asks for hector to stay within troys. Sep 14, 2011 hector meets paris on his way out of the city, and the brothers prepare to rejoin the battle. An important idea in the iliad is how the plan, or will of zeus affects hektor. The battle narratives in book 6 constitute the epics first descriptions of warfare, and, within the war as a whole, the first battles in which the sulking achilles has not fought. We havent yet talked about these in class, but once you know what they are, theyre easy to spotand theyre all over the place. Hector speeds to his own house, but his wife andromache is not there. Drydens the last parting of hector and andromache, first published in the 1693 miscellany examen poeticum, translates the celebrated passage from iliad 6 in which the trojan prince hector tells his wife andromache why he cannot obey her entreaty to stay at home but must instead return to the fighting. Hector, 1 returning from the field of battel, to visit helen his sisterinlaw, and his brother paris, who had fought unsuccessfully hand to hand with menelaus, from thence goes to his own palace to see his wife andromache, and his infant son astyanax. Hector says he shares andromaches worries but that he cannot be a coward and he has learnt to win glory for himself and priam and inspire the trojan men. Hector also prepares to return but first visits his wife, andromache, whom he finds nursing their son astyanax by the walls of the city. Illiad book 6 quotes learn with flashcards, games, and more for free. His parting from andromache brings into sharp focus the loss that the survivors in the defeated city must bear, and it foreshadows his death and the mourning of andromache in the.

In book vi of the iliad, hector and andromache share some time together with their son, astyanax, when there is a break in the fighting. Summary of the iliad book 6 hector and andromache scribd. This great epic poem is presented in an extended summary, with some of its finest passages given in full. The focus shifts to the city, where we get the mournful reactions of priam, hekabe, and andromache. The iliad book 6 hector returns to troy cabrini university. Hektor is the undisputed commander of the trojan army. The iliad summary in the tenth year of the trojan war, tensions are running high among the achaians a superancient name for the ancient greeks. For the poetry of homers language often rises to heights of incomparable beauty, as in the parting of hector from andromache, or the scene at the end of the iliad in. Zeus weighs the trojans vs greeks and finds that the trojans should now be in. She primarily appears in books 6 and 22 of the epic poem. Book six is especially renowned also for the touching scene of the trojan hero hectors final parting from his wife andromache and his baby. Dolon tells the two all about the trojan position, letting them know the best place to attack. In book 6 hector returns to troy from the battlefield and there meets with hecabe hecuba, with helen and paris, and finally with andromache and their son, astyanax.

What makes them distinctive is that they come from achilleus. Great ajax first to conquest led the way, broke the thick ranks, and turnd the doubtful day. Now i will demonstrate these qualities of hector by. The story of homers iliad the quintessential western. For a modern literary treatment of death as the great leveler, read w. Crossreferences in general dictionaries to this page 1. His concern for the trojan women and for the trojan community in general define him as a norm for homeric society. The point is, now that you know what the things are, its high time we jumped into the middle of them. Apr 06, 2010 the scene when hector is going back to the battle and andromache brings astyanax to say goodbye to him is one of the most touching and human in the book book 6.