2/3 Iliad Notes

1. Summarize with one or two quick bullet points per stanza - ones that you will be able to understand when you read your notes later.
Chryses, Apollo’s preist leaves in fear from Agamemnon
Chryses talks to Apollo and asks him to punish the Achaeans
“Hear me, Apollo! God of the silver bow who strides the walls of Chryse and Cilla sacrosanct-lord in power of Tenedos-Smintheus, god of the plague! If I ever roofed a shrine to please your heart, ever burned the long rich bones of bulls and goats on your holy altar, now, now bring my prayer to pass. Pay the Danaans back-our arrows for my tears”
Apollo hears Chryses prayer and come down from Olympus’ peaks
Apollo shoots and arrow through the Achaean army, it lasted 10 days
Achilles speaks to all the ranks
“Son of Atreus, now we are beaten back, I fear, the long campaign is lost. So home we sail…if we can escape our death-if war and plague are joining forces now to crush the Argives”

2. Ask questions about the reading from one or more stanzas
What are Argives?
Why does Achilles give up?

3. Predict what will happen next
Apollo will stop sending arrows down and forgive them