He didnt find whitearmed andromache at home, for shed left with the infant child, going to the walls. In the play archilles is portrayed as a brutal warrior with no emotional connection. So the greeks and trojans were left to their grim conflict, and the battle, in a hail of bronzetipped spears, surged this way and that over the plain, between simois and the streams of xanthus telamonian ajax, bulwark of the achaeans, was the first to shatter a trojan company and give his comrades hope, felling the best of the thracian warriors, acamas. Chapter summary for homers the iliad, book 6 summary. This example is the only reference to writing in the iliad. Throughout her appearances in the iliad, andromache is portrayed as a wife and mother. This book begins by continuing the slaughter of the last two books. The fight between trojans and achaeans was now left to rage as it would, and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain as they aimed their bronzeshod spears at one another. Below is an extract from one of the iliads most famous scenes, taking place at end of book 6. The play starts with how hermione, neoptolemuss wife and helen of.
He didnt find whitearmed andromache at home, for shed left with the infant child, going to the walls with a finely dressed attendant, in tears, lamenting. In book 3 she calls him a coward and says she doesnt want to share his bed. Homer uses these two characters to define the excellence of what a good man ought to be and what. After having read the iliad i came across this play, it continues the story of one of the princesses of troy, andromache. Andromache fears for hector, wanting him to withdraw from the fighting, but his honor will not let. But andromache, hectors wife, as yet knew nothing, no one had even told her that her husband had stayed outside the walls. In a famous scene between hector and andromache in book 6, andromache and hector meet for the last time before hector is killed by achilles. Andromache was on the walls of the city, spectating the events that were taking place below. But he found not whitearmed andromache in his halls. Hector returns to troy at thetis request, zeus intervenes to help the trojans defeat the achaeans. Achilles would also later kill andromaches husband, hector. Bitter fighting resumes, causing massive casualties on both sides. The end of book vi is the famous scene between hector and andromache and their infant son, astyanax. Troy has fallen and she is a reward for neoptolemus, achilles son, for the mycenaeans winning the war.
Read full text and annotations on iliad book vi at owl eyes. Do you think that this attitude is consistent with his character elsewhere in the iliad. 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. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of the iliad and what it means. Let us begin with a oneonone conversation in the iliad that does not follow the normal alternating sequence of such conversations. In the iliad andromache has quite a small part in the plot but is a main figure in hectors life. Andromaches lament book 22, lines 437515 is particularly powerful because homer effectively uses literary techniques here that bring out audience empathy. Joseph campbell condensed his understanding of story into a theory he called monomyth, also known as the heros journey or the. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Overall, the movie portrayed the book very accurately with the characters included in the scene and the overall conflict. 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. The iliad book 6 helen and andromache of all the characters in the iliad, the most complete person in the whole story may not be a greek, but a trojan. The episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache, the iliad, lit2go edition, 1899, accessed april 14, 2020. Hector has an encounter with his wife andromache, who is portrayed in the iliad as a gentle woman who just wants her excellent husband to live a full and essentially domestic life.
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. Find a summary of this and each chapter of the iliad. Polypoetes, and antilochus join in the fray while menelaus attacks the trojan adrestus. Andromache fears for hector, wanting him to withdraw from. Hector in troy study guide by gracevolante includes 25 questions covering vocabulary, terms and more. Although the way they portray the main character archilles is different.
Now that the gods have left the battlefield, the bloodshed continues between the trojans and the achaeans. How is the relationship between helen and paris different from the relationship between hector and andromache in books 3 and 6 of the iliad. Hector speaks to his wife and child after returning from battle and although he does not know it yet, it is to be their last meeting before he is killed by achilles. What makes them distinctive is that they come from achilleus. It is a portrait of the warrior at home, war forgotten as he watches his son play and talks with his wife. In the sixth book of the iliad, homer relates that. Hector hurried from the house when she had done speaking, and went down the streets by the same way that he had come. First, the priest chryses comes to ask their leader, king agamemnon, to release his daughter, whom agamemnon was holding captive. Hectors wife andromache makes a tearful speech to hector, begging him to be more careful and stay behind the battlements more often. In my previous post i looked at hectors farewell to his wife and child in book 6. Hector returns to the city for a brief time in book 6 of homers the iliad.
She was not alone, with her was another woman who was holding her child homer, 2015. This would seem to be a contradiction unless andromache had more than seven brothers. Hector and his wife andromache are the most complete characters we meet in the iliad. She primarily appears in books 6 and 22 of the epic poem. Hector named him scamandrius after the river scamander, near troy. Within book 6 of the iliad, where andromache was most prominent, she was displayed in an nontraditional setting for a typical woman. Compare his remarks here with those of hektor in book 6, lines 488489, quoted in the section on fate and free will. Andromache pleads with her husband not to return to the battle. Start studying the iliad book 6 hector and 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. Hector and andromache illiad book 6 by mary thomson on prezi. The trojans named him astyanax lord of the city as the son of troys greatest warrior. 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. In the iliad, andromaches lament is a poignant, intense passage that serves as a characterization of andromache, providing the reader with a further understanding of hektor, trojan.
Most commentators consider this scene to be the most moving in the iliad. His responsibility to troy, to his troops, to his family, and to the moral and heroic code, and his role as the instrument of zeus set up tensions that no other character seems to experience. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. Adrestus begs to be given mercy and menelaus considers, but. The end of book vi is the famous scene between hector and andromache and their infant son. Hector also prepares to return but first visits his wife, andromache, whom he finds nursing their son astyanax by.
Homers epic poem the iliad tells the story of the trojan war and the epic heroes and gods, including achilles, hector, odysseus, athena, ares, paris. Summary of the iliad book 6 hector and andromache free download as word doc. For a modern literary treatment of death as the great leveler, read w. When hector didnt meet his fair wife in the house, 460 he went and, standing in the doorway, asked his servant. 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. The battle continues with ajax telamon killing trojans along side the rampaging diomedes.
Hektor is a more complicated figure than most of the other characters in the iliad. He did not find andromache, for she was on the wall with her child and one of her. Andromaches lament as an important element of the iliad. This book raises the issues of war and life beyond war. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Although the achaeans suffer a disadvantage from achilles absence, they manage to subdue the trojans. Andromache is almost always depicted in tears in the epic. A summary of the main events of homers iliad book 6 hector and andromache. Hector and andromache from book 6 of the iliad youtube.