CLAS 1001 Lecture 9: ANCIENT MED CIV 10/4 NOTES
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Trojan war (1250 bce, maybe 1175 bce) Paris, son of priam, goes to which is ruled by menelaus, whose wife is helen. Menelaus leaves, goes to crete to visit knossos. Paris and helen fall in love, and run back to troy. Menelaus gets help from his brother, agamemnon, who is the king of the mycenaeans. Mycenaeans say she was kidnapped, trojans say she ran away. Ends when the mycenaeans climbed into a wooden horse, and had the rest of their troops leave. The trojans bring the horse inside and start to party. The mycenaeans climb out of the house, let in the rest of their army that came back, and sack the city. Commanded the entrance to the black sea. He was a terrible but lucky archaeologists who always found stuff. Lions gate at the entrance of mycenae. Burial shafts going 10-15 feet deep were filled with bodies and buried, marked with tombstones.
