CLAA06H3 Lecture 11: Trojan Saga
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Agamemnon leaves mycenae and grows up in safety with the king of (cid:1) Meets the children of spartasome of them are immortal. The wife, leda has kids with her husband and zeus (he has her wicked way with her by disguising himself as a swan: helen & polydeuces (pollux, clytemnestra & castor. Agememnon marries clytemnestra and becomes the king of. Menelaus marries helen (the most beautiful women: her father is scared that is he betroths her to one man, the other would gang up on him, so he has odysseus help him (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Zeus likes the sea nymp thetis, but rsists b/c of an oracle that the son will be more powerful than him revealed by prometheus. Instead the mortal peleus marries her, after feats of endurance. Their son is achilles: thetis tries to make achilles immortal, but is stopped by. All the gods are invited, except for eris, who is the god of discord.
