Who's Who: Names and Ships Clas. 4110 08/31

1.1 The Iliad: starting in medias res. Familiar stories.

1.2 Invocation of the goddess. A wrath [menis] story.

1.3 Who are quarreling? Why? Summary. Major figures: Agamemnon, Achilles, Apollo, Kalchas, Briseis, Athena, Nestor, Patroklos, Thetis, Odysseus, Zeus, Hera, Hephaistos.

1.4 Help on Names. Patronymics (e.g. Atreus' son or Atreides)

2.1 Discussion: What is at stake?

2.2 Who is 'best of the Achaians' (aristos Akhaion)? The claim of Achilles; of Agamemon. Nestor's position. A conflict.

3.1 The Catalogue of Ships. Statistics. The Iliad as pan-hellenic.

3.2 The second invocation (II.484-93). Rumor (kleos).

3.3 Epic catalogues: order, pattern, variation.

3.3 A few Trojans to know: Hector, Aeneas, Sarpedon.