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Pelops Hippodamia Pelops Pelops Hippodamia Zeus 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 Ægina Peleus Thetis Eris 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.
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