CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hamaxitus, Thrinacia, Nostoi
6 Dec 2017
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Most famous in ancient world: stories combine the greatest collection of heroes/heroines (cid:498)pre stories,(cid:499) (cid:498)spin-offs(cid:499) stories that happened before the trojan. (omer(cid:495)s )liad and odyssey: vergil(cid:495)s aeneid, epic poems epic has to do with scope of the work (very long) and. Gods are in conflict, fighting with other gods. When gods are in conflict, so are we also the topic, dealing with large questions about the nature of humanities, gods, world themes, conflict on an epic scale. Many cities built on top of each other. Not sure which one is the troy. Menelaus (sparta) brother of agamemnon, loses his wife helen. Achilles (phthia) greatest warrior: patroclus, phoenix two key characters underneath achilles. Odysseus (ithaca) hero from small island. Diomedes (argos) young aggressive warrior: hecuba queen of troy, married to priam, they have 50 children, some. Hector main son, leading son, prince of troy: andromache, astyanax andromache is his wife, astyanax is his son.
