CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Chryses, Hamaxitus, Ichor
3 Dec 2014
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Married to peleus (mortal to make it less strong: achilles. Thetis tried to make achilles immortal: river styx. Thetis leaves peleus: achilles raised by centaur, chiron (heracles, jason) Most greek hero are associated with this centaur (chiron) Zeus (disguise himself as a swan to seduce her even though she"s married to king tynadareus. Wife of tyndareus (sparta: poludeuces (pollux, castor. Menelaus and helen: hermione marriual bliss, menelaus not most handsome, not best warrior, which was weird. Paris visits while menelaus is on crete aphrodite made paris the promise of having the most beautiful girl (helen) Helen went with paris happily greek perspective. Rest of the world paris abducted her by force. Thetis hides achilles on scyros: deidamia, neoptolemus (pyrrhus) Thetis didn"t want achilles to go to war, so she has achilles dressed in drag and stay at the scyros with the women. But he fell for the princess and have a daughter.
