CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Skyros, Foot Odor, Asteropaios
27 Apr 2016
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Homer reminds us that war"s victims are almost always the most innocent (women, children, elderly) Set during the mycenaean period (1600 - 1200bc), on the mainland of crete. Homer wrote sometime between 800 - 700bc. Helen (daughter of leda and zeus) is married to the king of sparta paris goes to. Sparta and abducts helen this angers his husband because he has lost his proper and his honour agamemnon (his brother, king of mycenae) summons the greeks (who were called the acheans) invokes the oath of (tendarious? spelling) The heroes that participated in the war: diomedes (favoured by athena, the gods also participated in the war, odysseus (of ithaca) - he is resistant to joining the war because he is wise and thoughtful. He pretends to be insane when palmedes arrives to collect him but has to join to protect his baby. Odysseus enacts revenge on palmedes by framing him for treason.
