CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Menelaus, Calchas, Epic Battles
15 Mar 2014
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Trojan war, picking up where we left off. Paris goes to sparta to claim his prize that he earned by picking aphrodite in the contest for beauty. Helen is the wife of the king of sparta, menalaus. Menalaus goes to visit a friend while paris is there. Paris breaks xenia, he takes helen and her stuff while he is away and they sail back to troy. Odysseus and achilles have to be forced to come. As with any greek adventure, you don"t just leave and get to your destination without pre-adventures. wont go into it they get there, first greek that jumps off the boat, Protesilaus, is immediately killed by hector. honour of being the first one killed. Chryseis goes to agamemnon in this case, the prized female was given to agamemnon. the second best, bryseis, was given to achilles. unfortunately for. Agamemnon, chryseis" father, chryses, was a priest of apollo.
