![]() ![]() And so, Odysseus wants to find out the circumstances of his death.Īnd Agamemnon says – obviously in translation – “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” There’s a very good record within the epic, it is also picked up in various Greek tragedies, because that’s one of the central tragedies in classical world, is the killing of Agamemnon by his wife’s lover. We know that Agamemnon was killed when he got back from the Trojan War. And among the dead that he talks to is Agamemnon. It actually goes back farther – to The Odyssey.Īnd you guys might remember– in Book 11 of The Odyssey – Odysseus goes down to the underworld and he sees his mother, but he also sees all the illustrious dead from the Trojan War. Once again, there’s a classical illusion behind the title. ![]() We’re going to get started on As I Lay Dying and, as with The Sound and the Fury, there’s a very long genealogy behind the title of the novel. ![]() Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner AMST 246 - Lecture 13 - Faulkner's As I Lay DyingĬhapter 1: The Odyssey and As I Lay Dying ![]()
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