CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Deiphobus, Clytemnestra, Mycenaean Greece

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Lecture 21 the trojan saga after homeric ending. After popping out of the trojan horse, the mycenaean"s burn the city to the ground. Neoptolemus achilles son he left behind is shown destroying the city: he killed the king of troy priam. Polyxena was thought to be the one who double crossed achilles: she had her throat sliced over the grave of achilles after the was over. Andromacha and astyanax: astyanax the son of hector was taken to the top of the walls of the. Andromacha and the wives of the trojans became the war prize of many of the greek warriors: andromacha became married to neoptolemus. Cassandra became the prize of agamemnon: when agamemnon came home from the war with cassandra his current wife clytemnestra still made at the sacrifice of their daughter kills agamemnon. The survivors of the trojan war were slim: anneus escapes the war with his father and his son.