CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Trojan War, Peitho, Aeacus
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The sack of troy (ilium) by the grks believed to have happened in the 12th c b. c. the. Archaeological evidence pts to a catastrophic burning of the city of troy in approx. this period. It"s a historical event, the ancient grks believed this actually happened. In our terms would have happened in the mycenaean period. The last layer of troy is called troy 7, and archaeologists were able to probe that this last layer was destroyed by burning woo after this pt no more troy. Ilium is the old name for troy, aka iliad. *key theme in trojan war + grk myths = encounter b/w grks and non-grks o. Trying to define what greekness is, and the trojan war is important because it descrbs the meeting of 2 cultures: grks vs. trojans (outsiders who don"t understand greek culture) Leda is seduced by zeus disguised as a swan. Leda"s children w/ zeus: polydeuces (roman pollux, helen.
