CLAA06H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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The story of the trojan war: homer is not the only epic poet but one of the many epic poets, and there are other epic poems of the trojan war in antiquity (ex. Cypria, little iliad etc. ) but these were not preserved, they are still archaic. The origins of the war in cypria: cypria tells the story of the origins of the war, aphrodite is associated with cyprus, so we know that the story will prominently feature. Judgment of paris comes with the goddess strife attending the wedding of thetis and. Greeks: the cypria gives us an inclination that all of what happens is in accordance of zeus, because thetis and zeus are talking at the beginning and helen is the daughter of zeus. Acusilaus: aphrodite takes anchises and gives birth to aineias. In this variant version, we have aphrodite as the real prime mover behind the events of the war.
