CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thyestes, Atreus, Golden Fleece
5 Feb 2013
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The trojan war: the fall of troy, the return of the greek heroes (nostoi; connect with nostalgia) nostoi means return, homecoming. Troy was a city in asia minor, and was thought to be barbaric in homeric times. The ancestors of menelaus and agamemnon: both of these people descend from tantalus (associated with greed). Tantalus offered pelops to the olympians to test their omniscience and to see if they were able to recognize the type of food they were eating. He is from the cities of argos and mycenae (in the argive plain) unrelated to perseus or heracles lineage: the story of tantalus" offense against the olympians the chopping of. Pelops was revived without his shoulder(demeter ate it she was unaware of what she was eating do to emotional distress over persephone her daughter). Hepheastus replaced the shoulder with ivory: oenomaus, king in pisa (northwest peloponnesus) his daughter.
