CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Adrastus, Tydeus, Odysseus
15 Feb 2018
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Athena is on the side of the achaeans. She is the protectress of cities and champion of human heroes. Paris and hector - brothers - children of priam and hecuba. Hector is greatly disappointed and upset w/ paris bc he took helen. Hector tells andromache (his wife) that he would rather die than see her be taken as a slave by the achaeans. Priam doesn"t blame helen for the war, but blames the gods. If they aren"t held true, nothing can be done. There is no judicial system, so oaths are important to the greeks. Adrastos begs menelaos for his life on the battlefield, menelaos is about to say yes, but. Agamemnon convinces him that every trojan must die. Zeus wants to wipe the memories (massacre) of the humans so they become friends again. The zanes (figures of zeus) of olympia. Zeus is in charge of the violations of oaths. Cheaters get their names put under statues of zeus.
