CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Heinrich Schliemann, Ionic Greek, Clytemnestra
13 Apr 2018
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Trojan war: how does it begin, helen the most beautiful of all greek women, is the daughter of zeus and leda, the wife of king. I(cid:374) iliad, hele(cid:374)"s (cid:449)illingness to go is presented ambiguously: attracted to new lover, longing for her homeland. I(cid:374) so(cid:373)e (cid:373)yths, it is (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed she did(cid:374)"t go, her pha(cid:374)to(cid:373) (cid:449)e(cid:374)t: her capture is merely a pretext of war, ordained by zeus as a reason to reduce the population on earth. The war in illiad: once helen has been abducted, agamemnon and menelaus, assembled the greek army at the bay of aulis to go to trojan. If he stays home from troy, he would live a long but inglorious life. Trojans, pretending to be an enemy of odysseus, saying that horse was an offering to athena which if brought inside the walls of troy would protect it from harm.
