CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Polymestor, Miasma Theory, Thyestes
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Makes it look like the greeks are leaving because disease. Gifts the horse to athena to stop the disease (offering) Helen and cassandra saw through this: helen even mimicked the voices of their wives (those in the horse, helen and menelaus. Menelaus says he has to kill helen for leaving him. But, she"s too beautiful, so he couldn"t do it: neoptolemus (son of achilles) Kills astyanax (in some versions) is the son of hector. Priam was seeking refuge in zeus" sanctuary or temple: greeks do not abide by the rule that mortals should not attack in temples. In some versions, neoptolemus kills priam using the dead body of. Hector"s son, astyanax (baby: part of the spoils: trojan women. Her only wish was for her body to be given to her mother for burial or funeral rites. Cassandra was given to agamemnon: was seeking refuge in athena"s temple, was raped and ripped from the statue by ajax the lesser.
