CLA204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thersites, Kleos, Nostoi
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Cla204 lecture 11 march 20 1. Tesephany :furies: people who have killed their own family members. Tantalus : standing in a pool of water and he tries to reach the fruits above him but he cant. Pelops : he wins hippodamia in a chariot race: they have many children : thyestes and atreus. Both of the children do horrible things to each other. The golden fleece : atreus promised to sacrifice to artemis but he didn"t because he burned it in a golden chest. Atreus" wife is having an affair with thyestes. Atreus" says who have has the golden fleece will get the thorn. Atreus" finds out about his wife cheating so he kills thyestes two sons and serves them at a. The gods get involved, zeus urges atreus to challenge thyestes. If atreus can make the sun go backwards in the sky one day he can rule ________
