“From Within and Without the Wall of

Troy: Domesticity and War in The Iliad”

By: Andrea AntenanSophomore Mellon

Scholar

The Iliadby Homer

“Rage– Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls…”

- The Iliad, I, 1-3

The Trojan Wall

The Trojan Wall

“And Iris came on Helen in her rooms…weaving a growing web, a dark red flowing robe,working into the weft the endless bloody strugglesstallion-breaking Trojans and Argive armed in bronzehad suffered all for her at the god of battle’s hands.”

-The Iliad, III, 150-154

“And Iris came on Helen in her rooms…weaving a growing web, a dark red flowing robe,working into the weft the endless bloody strugglesstallion-breaking Trojans and Argive armed in bronzehad suffered all for her at the god of battle’s hands.”

-The Iliad, III, 150-154

“And with those wordsthe goddess filled her heart with yearning warm and deep for her husband long ago, her city and her parents.”

-The Iliad, III, 167-169

“And with those wordsthe goddess filled her heart with yearning warm and deep for her husband long ago, her city and her parents.”

-The Iliad, III, 167-169

“At that, Hector spun and rushed from his house,back by the same way down the wide, well-paved streetsthroughout the city until he reached the Scaean Gates,the last point he would pass to gain the field in battle.There his warm, generous wife came running up to meet him…”

- The Iliad, VI, 462-466

“At that, Hector spun and rushed from his house,back by the same way down the wide, well-paved streetsthroughout the city until he reached the Scaean Gates,the last point he would pass to gain the field in battle.There his warm, generous wife came running up to meet him…”

- The Iliad, VI, 462-466

‘”You Hector—you are my father now, my noble mother,a brother too, and you are my husband, young and warm and strong!Pity me, please! Take your stand on the rampart here,before you orphan your son and make your wife a widow...”

- The Iliad, VI, 508-512

‘”You Hector—you are my father now, my noble mother,a brother too, and you are my husband, young and warm and strong!Pity me, please! Take your stand on the rampart here,before you orphan your son and make your wife a widow...”

- The Iliad, VI, 508-512

“The majestic king of Troy slipped past the restand kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his kneesand kissed his hand, those terrible, man-killing handsthat had slaughtered Priam’s many sons in battle.”

- The Iliad, XXIV, 559-562

“The majestic king of Troy slipped past the restand kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his kneesand kissed his hand, those terrible, man-killing handsthat had slaughtered Priam’s many sons in battle.”

- The Iliad, XXIV, 559-562

“Those words stirred within Achilles a deep desireto grieve his own father. Taking the old man’s handhe gently moved him back. And overpowered by memoryboth men gave way to grief.

- The Iliad, XXIV, 592-595

“Those words stirred within Achilles a deep desireto grieve his own father. Taking the old man’s handhe gently moved him back. And overpowered by memoryboth men gave way to grief.

- The Iliad, XXIV, 592-595

“And white-armed Andromache led their songs of sorrow,cradling the head of Hector, man-killing Hectorgently in her arms: “O my husband. . . Cut off from life so young! You leave me a widow,Lost in the royal halls– and the boy only a baby…I cannot think he will ever come to manhood.”

- The Iliad, XXIV, 850-856

For more information…

Contact me at…andrea.antenan@hope.edu

@LitandALatte

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Textual Source:

Homer, Robert Fagles, and Bernard Knox. The Iliad. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, 1990. All of the following passages are from this source.

Media Sources:

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