Book 24

Cards (3)

  • Priam moves Achilles heart
    Achilles celebrates Patroclus
    Gods protect hectors body, angry he is not giving it. Burial
    Great Priam shows desperation - begs (supplication) and kisses his hands
    Achilles cannot ignore as it breaks rule of Xenia
    He makes him think of his fathers position, both cry together (for Patroclus and for hector)
    Achilles is doomed to die young and wants to be free from fate
  • What is the role of Xenia?
    Priam is seeking refuge
    Achilles cannot ignore
    must give him food, place to stay and wash him
    law that hosts must do
  • Achilles releases Hector corpse to Priam
    priam rushes him, achilles says he might kill him too as he has a short anger
    gave him tunic (expensive) - nice thing
    servant girls are Trojan woman taken for geras wash body and anoint it (think hector saved Troy)
    they eat together - bond