= X Œnomaüs = Y

Niobe =

Chrysippus

Pisa Mycenæ & Argos Hippodamia

Pelops Hippodamia Pelops Pelops Hippodamia

Œnomaüs

Temple of Zeus, Olympia Tantalus = X Œnomaüs = Y

Niobe Pelops = Hippodamia

Pittheus Chysippus Thebes

Pisa Mycenæ & Argos Peloponnese Atreus vs Thyestes

Sign 1:

Aëropē

Sign 2: The Sun

Delphic Oracle: Must beget child by own daughter,

Atreus = Aëropē Thyestes = X

Pelopia

Agamemnon Ægisthus

Mycenæ & Argos Recognition token: sword Leda wife of Tyndareus Leda Icarius Tyndareus = Leda Zeus

Penelope Clytemnestra Castor Helen Polydeuces

Clytemnestra =

Helen = Menelaus Clytemnestra = Agamemnon Helen = Menelaus

Iphigenia Electra Hermione

Mycenæ / Argos Sparta Castor and Polydeuces Helen’s Suitors

Oath of Tyndareus devised by

Winner: Menelaus Æacus = X (Ægina)

Thetis = Telamon Phocus

Achilles Telamonian Ajax (“The Greater”)

() (Salamis)

Myrmidons = ant-men Phthia

Salamis

Ægina Peleus

Wedding of Peleus and Thetis Judgment of Paris

Judgment of Paris Etruscan mirror

Uni = Juno = Menrfa = Minerva = Turan = Venus =

Georges Dumézil idéologie tripartite (three-part ideology)

Sovereignty Kings Sanctity Hera Priests Law

Warriors Military Power Athena

Economy Peasants Fertility Aphrodite Production = Hecuba

Paris many many (Alexander) (50+) (10+) other daughters sons Heinrich Schliemann discovered (Wilusa) 1871

wife in “Helen’s Jewels”

Where’s Odysseus? Odysseus = Penelope

Telemachus Prophecy: Troy will not fall until/unless fights for the .

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, 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

Lasts 10 years

Cypria, Iliad, Æthiopis, , Sack of Troy

Nostoi (homecomings) afterwards Nostoi, , 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 =

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.

Memnon the Æthiopian

Tithonus =

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 to Troy.

Who has the arrows? Philoctetes on Lemnos

manages to kill Paris Odysseus captures , 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 and son Ascanius