CLA 1102 Lecture 1: CLA1102 – Week 1.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

How do we still honour romans today? dates (july/augustus) Things that romans invested: walls, city planning, flushing toilets, concrete, bathing/hygiene, law, calendars, measurements. Women were not seen as people, neither were children. Eris (discordia) was the only goddess not invited and out of bitterness, wanted to destroy the wedding. She made an apple and threw it into the party/reception that was for the most beautiful woman . This caused a catfight between hera (queen of the gods), minerva (wisdom and war), venus (aprodite). The 3 ladies were taken to mt ida by hermes to visit paris (shepherd) to decide who gets the apple. Hera/juno offers him to be king of europe and asia. Minerva offers all of human wisdom and skill in war. Venus offers sex and marriage with beautiful woman on earth (helen is the wife of menelaus). Menelaus takes world at war to troy (kings of. Greece on his side) 10 year war and trojans won.