ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neoptolemus, Epic Cycle, Cypria
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The epic cycle of the trojan war and nostoi. The story of the trojan war: all the epics belonging to the epic cycle have been lost; only two prose synopses (by. Helena who is already married: birth of helena (daughter of zeus); abduction of helena, the two musters of ships at aulis. More battling after the death of hector: rather than just white males fighting in battle, amazons, fierce women warriors, joined the fight on the side of the trojans, refer to lecture 04 slide 07. The arms of achilles: achilles and ajax are fighting over the arms of achilles, however, achilles earns it, ajax has the same rage as achilles. Neoptolemos: achilles 2. 0: achilles" son who is fighting to sack troy, hubris doing stuffs that are contrary to the laws made by the gods. In the picture, neoptolemos kills priam on an altar which is inappropriate.
