CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Castor And Pollux, Bride Price, Clytemnestra
16 Mar 2018
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Zeus impregnates leda twice on the same night (as a swan), while she has sex with her husband tyndareus this produces two sets of twins: helen (fr. Prophecy that thetis will give birth to a man more powerful than his father: the gods force her to marry peleus, the most pious mortal, first, he has to wrestle her. Eris (aka. discord) wasn"t invited: carves for this best/most beautiful woman (kalliste) onto an apple and tosses it into the reception, hera, aphrodite, and athena fight over the apple, zeus sends them to paris. Hermes takes the three goddesses to paris, the trojan prince living as a shepherd, who has to choose between them: hera offers royal power, athena offers military power, aphrodite offers helen, who is already married to menelaus. Paris chooses helen and aphrodite helps paris seduce her while he visits sparta and. Menelaus is away in crete: breaks the hospitality (xenia) code, stesichorus wrote.
