CLA160H1 Lecture : Greece to the 'Renaissance'
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There are now painfully, painfully lame sound effects. Back to schliemann, when he dug for troy, away from where contemporary scientists thought that troy was, he found troys. So, schliemann"s proved that there was a troy. So, to long story short, there are epics of mycenae doing that stuff, there"s evidence of. Now, as you know, it only covers part of the war not the death of achilles, not the. There"s the achilles/agamemnon dispute, and then after the death of. Patroclus, he goes out and starts owning, fights and kills hector, and then later priam sneaks into the camp and asks achilles to release hector"s body to him. Later in the sack of troy, there was worse stuff. Hector"s son was flung from the walls and his wife and mother enslaved. Greek post-battle was like the men were killed, the women enslaved. Later on, thucydides and dio chrysostom mock, contradict, or rationalize homer.
