CLAS 1P97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bota Bag, Athens A, Lapiths
9 Feb 2016
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The topics all deal with the issue of heracles" murder of his family and whether he deserves forgiveness. His mythology was very much developed during the fifth century bc when athens was a powerful state. Athens- really a temple to hephaistus and athena. Decorated with scences of the labours of theseus. Keep your wineskin sealed until you are back at athens. Aegeus runs into a foreign woman who has just been divorced by. She says that she can make sure he has a son if he lets her live at. Aegeus goes to troezen to ask his friend pittheus about the oracle. But he wants the child to be his descendant too. Aethra and aegeus had gone to make a dedication at a sanctuary. Aegeus puts his sandals and sword under a stone and tells aethra to test the child when he comes of age. Greek version of the sword and the stone.
