CLAS 3P25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cretan Bull, Stymphalian Birds, Writhe
17 Jan 2017
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Clas3p25 lecture 3 olympia & religious experience in greece. Goal to show tumult of battle in stone. Myth cycle = nymph aegina (resident of the island) raped by zeus = aikos has a son called -> telemon has a son called -> ajax (participant in the trojan war) = islanders of aegina. Telemon sacked troy and heracles, ajax with agamemnon = twice victorious in myth. Shows action, in the middle of battle, but the viewer knows the end of the story s this is a part of their history. Top west pediment paris, ajax , athea in the center and at the end, dying trojan) East pediment bottom dying man king laomedon of troy. Paris prince of troy with a bow dressed in a scythian/ persian costume = eastern identifier to symbolize. He represents an eastern persona and represents the recent persian war. 480 bc 3rd time aegina was victorious against easterners.
