In homeric researches 1949, kakridis observes that for the last meeting of hector and andromache and their farewell, the poet found it necessary to. Mar 08, 2014 this feature is not available right now. Hector and andromache from book 6 of the iliad youtube. An important idea in the iliad is how the plan, or will of zeus affects hektor. 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. 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. We havent yet talked about these in class, but once you know what they are, theyre easy to spotand theyre all over the place. 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.
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. 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. Hector also prepares to return but first visits his wife, andromache, whom he finds nursing their son astyanax by the walls of the city. This great epic poem is presented in an extended summary, with some of its finest passages given in full. A servant tells him that she has gone to troys tower to watch the fighting. First, the priest chryses comes to ask their leader, king agamemnon, to release his daughter, whom agamemnon was holding captive. Great ajax first to conquest led the way, broke the thick ranks, and turnd the doubtful day. The description of that interview is the subject of this translation.
In book vi of the iliad homer retells the scene between hector and andromache, ending with hectors departure for battle, where valiant. May 07, 2020 hectors character is drawn in most favourable colours as a good son, a loving husband and father, and a trusty friend. She primarily appears in books 6 and 22 of the epic poem. Now i will demonstrate these qualities of hector by. May 30, 2015 provided to youtube by smithsonian folkways recordings the iliad. 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. The iliad book 6 hector returns to troy cabrini university. Start studying the iliad book 6 hector and andromache. When he had gone through the city and had reached the scaean gates through which he would go out on to the plain, his wife came running towards him, andromache, daughter of great eetion who ruled in thebe under the wooded. Andromache the mythical wife of trojan prince hector. The worst thing that can occur is trojans burn the ships because then the greeks wont be able to get supplies. No other trojan warrior approaches hektors courage and valor.
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. Do you think that this attitude is consistent with his character elsewhere in the iliad. Throughout her appearances in the iliad, andromache is portrayed as a wife and mother. 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. Hector and iliad vi deep blue university of michigan. The iliad cliffsnotes study guides book summaries, test. What makes them distinctive is that they come from achilleus.
Homer, iliad book 16 theoi classical texts library. As she cradles the child, she anxiously watches the struggle in the plain below. 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. Hectors wife andromache makes a tearful speech to hector, begging him to be more careful and stay behind the battlements more often. 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. Hektor is the undisputed commander of the trojan army. For a modern literary treatment of death as the great leveler, read w. Hector and helen heap scorn on him for not fighting, and at last he arms himself and returns to battle. 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. Th immortals yield to human force and human skill, the field. 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. Hector tells her he must fight so that all of troy is not destroyed. This book raises the issues of war and life beyond war. 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.
Oct 24, 2019 in book 17 of the iliad, homer mentions podes, a brother of andromache. 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. 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. He is also viewed as the future king of troy, and as such, he already shows his responsibility to the community.
It is a portrait of the warrior at home, war forgotten as he watches his son play and talks with his wife. 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. Dolon asks to be taken alive, and the achaeans use the opportunity to gather information from him. The gods promise to thetis to give victory to the trojans traps hektor into a key role. Hectors farewell iliad book 6 in homeric greek youtube. Hector speeds to his own house, but his wife andromache is not there. 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. 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.
Aug 28, 2016 the episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache the gods having left the field, the grecians prevail. Hector and andromache illiad book 6 by mary thomson on prezi. The focus shifts to the city, where we get the mournful reactions of priam, hekabe, and andromache. His concern for the trojan women and for the trojan community in general define him as a norm for homeric society. Helenus, the chief augur of troy, commands hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the trojan matrons to the temple of minerva, to entreat her to remove diomed from the fight. Hector runs to the gates, where he meets andromache and their infant son astyanax. 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 featured in homeric and virgilian epic. The farewell between hector and andromache slideshare. 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. In the movie, hector is strong and is prepared to fight archilles which no doubts. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache. His leavetaking of andromache in the sixth book of the iliad, and his departure to meet achilles for the last time, are movingly described.
Zeus weighs the trojans vs greeks and finds that the trojans should now be in. Summary of the iliad book 6 hector and andromache free download as word doc. The iliad book 7,8,9 the iliad book 7,8,9 book 6 end. Andromache s worst fears, imagined in book 6, have now come to pass. Crossreferences in general dictionaries to this page 1. This book begins by continuing the slaughter of the last two books. Illiad book 6 quotes learn with flashcards, games, and more for free.
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. Most commentators consider this scene to be the most moving in the iliad. Summary of the iliad book 6 hector and andromache scribd. Compare his remarks here with those of hektor in book 6, lines 488489, quoted in the section on fate and free will. Hector bids farewell to andromache workshop of bernard picart, 1710.
Achilles would also later kill andromaches husband, hector. 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. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and. Andromaches worst fears, imagined in book 6, have now come to pass. The story of homers iliad the quintessential western. While troy s famd streams that bound the deathful plain on either side run purple to the main. Book six is especially renowned also for the touching scene of the trojan hero hectors final parting from his wife andromache and his baby. He is an especial favourite of apollo, and later poets even described him as son of. 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. 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. 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. 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. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache, the iliad, lit2go edition, 1899, accessed may 15, 2020.
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. The end of book vi is the famous scene between hector and andromache and their infant son, astyanax. 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. 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.
The gods having left the field, the grecians prevail. Dolon passes by the hiding diomedes and odysseus, and the pair spring upon him, chasing him down. Zeus has promised him divine help with victory that will last until the trojans have reached the beaches and the achaian ships. 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. Their cries reach the ears of andromache, who, ignorant of this, was retired into the inner part of the palace. Helenus, the chief augur of troy, commands hector to return to the city, in order. Now i will demonstrate these qualities of hector by analyzing his.