CLASSICS 1B03 Final: Classics Exam Review.docx
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Skene served as a stage backdrop and included doors to mark a space for interior action. Mechane: the crane used to hoist characters over the stage. Cypria: explained the cause of the trojan war, traced back to paris"s seduction of helen violation of xenia, zeus and themis planned the war. Aphrodite because she promises his marriage to helen: paris goes to sparta and after menelaus leaves for crete aphrodite brings. Helen and paris together and they depart: hera sidetracks them to sidon with a storm, paris takes it, and then sails on to troy. Lyrnessus and pedasus and other cities kills troilus: patroclus gives lycaon as a slave in lemnos and receives briseis and. Chryseis: then follows the death of palamedes, the plan of zeus to relieve the. Trojans by detaching achilles from the greek confederacy, and a catalogue of the trojan allies: the iliad follows the narrative of the cypria.