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LECTURE 3 Achilles and women's laments / love songs. Meleager's "ascending scale of affection": a hero's mode of defining the self.
1. Key words for today: akhos and penthos, both meaning 'grief' OR 'song of grief' = 'lament' 1a. The word akhos is connected with the name of Achilles in the Iliad. Similarly, the word penthos is ...