Tantalus = X Œnomaüs = Y
Niobe Pelops = Hippodamia
Chrysippus Lydia
Pisa Mycenæ & Argos Peloponnese Hippodamia
Pelops Hippodamia Pelops Pelops Hippodamia Zeus
Œnomaüs
Temple of Zeus, Olympia Tantalus = X Œnomaüs = Y
Niobe Pelops = Hippodamia
Pittheus Chysippus Atreus Thyestes Thebes
Pisa Mycenæ & Argos Peloponnese Atreus vs Thyestes
Sign 1: Golden Fleece
Aëropē
Sign 2: The Sun
Delphic Oracle: Must beget child by own daughter, Pelopia
Atreus = Aëropē Thyestes = X
Pelopia
Agamemnon Menelaus Ægisthus
Mycenæ & Argos Sparta Recognition token: sword Leda wife of Tyndareus Leda Icarius Tyndareus = Leda Zeus
Penelope Clytemnestra Castor Helen Polydeuces
Clytemnestra = Agamemnon
Helen = Menelaus Clytemnestra = Agamemnon Helen = Menelaus
Iphigenia Orestes Electra Hermione
Mycenæ / Argos Sparta Castor and Polydeuces Helen’s Suitors
Oath of Tyndareus devised by Odysseus
Winner: Menelaus Æacus = X (Ægina)
Thetis = Peleus Telamon Phocus
Achilles Telamonian Ajax (“The Greater”)
(Phthia) (Salamis)
Myrmidons = ant-men Phthia
Salamis
Wedding of Peleus and Thetis Judgment of Paris
Judgment of Paris Etruscan mirror
Uni = Juno = Hera Menrfa = Minerva = Athena Turan = Venus = Aphrodite
Georges Dumézil idéologie tripartite (three-part ideology)
Sovereignty Kings Sanctity Hera Priests Law
Warriors Military Power Athena
Economy Peasants Fertility Aphrodite Production Priam = Hecuba
Paris Hector many many (Alexander) (50+) (10+) other daughters sons Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy (Wilusa) 1871
wife in “Helen’s Jewels”
Where’s Odysseus? Odysseus = Penelope
Telemachus Prophecy: Troy will not fall until/unless Achilles fights for the Greeks.
Peleus = Thetis
Achilles
Achilles and Chiron Prophecy: Troy will not fall until/unless Achilles fights for the Greeks.
Achilles on Scyros If I remain here, attacking city of the mighty Trojans, I lose my nostos, but I will have undying kleos. If, however, I choose to return to the land of my fathers, my noble kleos is lost, but I will live to an old age. —Achilles, Iliad 9
…your life is doomed to be brief, filling so short a span… you must meet an early death; such is the painful destiny for which I brought you into this world.—Thetis, Iliad 1
on mothers sending sons to war: ἄλλη προσαναδιδοῦσα τῷ παιδὶ τὴν ἀσπίδα καὶ παρακελευομένη «τέκνον» ἔφη, «ἢ ταύταν ἢ ἐπὶ ταύτας.» Peleus = Thetis
Achilles = Deidamea
Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus)
Prophecy: Troy will not fall until/unless Neoptolemus fights. Aulis
Sacrifice of Iphigenia Trojan War
Lasts 10 years
Cypria, Iliad, Æthiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy
Nostoi (homecomings) afterwards Nostoi, Odyssey, Telegony Iliad
Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί’ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε’ ἔθηκε, πολλὰς δ’ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ’ ἐτελείετο βουλή…
Covers a few weeks of the 10th year of the war Geras
Agamemnon gets Chryseïs
Achilles gets Briseïs
Chryseïs sent back to father to stop plague
Agamemnon takes Briseïs for himself
Result: Achilles loses geras, therefore loses time
Royal House of Troy
Priam = Hecuba
Helen Paris Hector = Andromache
Astyanax Astyanax
Hector
Andromache Achilles vs Hector with Athena’s help…
Achilles
Hector
Iliad, last line
ὣς οἵ γ' ἀμφιεπον τάφον Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο.
Aethiopis, first lines
ὣς οἵ γ’ ἀμφίεπον τάφον Ἕκτορος· ἦλθε δ' Ἀμαζών, Ἄρηος θυγάτηρ μεγαλήτορος ἀνδροφόνοιο. Ὀτρήρης θυγάτηρ ἐυειδὴς Πενθεσίλεια. Penthesilea
Memnon the Æthiopian
Tithonus = Eos
Memnon Memnon vs. Achilles Achilles must die. Achilles meets Polyxena Achilles is ambushed by Paris Ajax carrying Achilles Who gets Achilles’ armor? Who deserves it? Ajax? Odysseus? Ajax New Prophecy: Troy will not fall unless/until the Greeks bring the arrows of Heracles to Troy.
Who has the arrows? Philoctetes on Lemnos
manages to kill Paris Odysseus captures Helenus, the Trojan prophet
New Prophecies:
Troy will not fall unless/until the Greeks remove the Palladium from Troy.
Troy will not fall unless/until the Greeks bring the bones of Pelops to Troy.
Troy will not fall unless/until Neoptolemus fights for the Greeks. Odysseus and Diomedes steal the Palladium Odysseus gives Neoptolemus the arms of Achilles Epeius’ Horse Laocoön and sons Neoptolemus Priam Priam Ajax the Lesser rapes Cassandra in the temple Æneas escapes Troy with father Anchises and son Ascanius