CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Greek Mythology, Ab Ovo, Sophia (Wisdom)
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Iliad: heroic epic: long poem about heroes, with cultural significance, 15,693 lines, 24 books long, trojan war, written text developed from earlier oral versions. The wedding of peleus and thetis: thetis is a sea nymph and is the daughter in nereus, prophecy that son will be more powerful than him: prometheus tells zeus not to sleep with thetis because of the prophecy. Paris (the prince of troy) to help them settle this issue: prince is the son of hecuba and priam, brother of hector, each goddess offers paris something, athena offers eternal wisdom and success, Agamemnon who accidentally killed a deer artemis cared about: to appease artemis, he sacrifices his daughter iphigenia and the storm dies down. Hephaistos is very protective of his mother because he is only her son, like his mother did not sleep with zeus to conceive him, she just kind of had him alone.
