CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 51: Ceryneian Hind, Greek Mythology, Myrtilus
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Poseidon abducts pelops out of love, gets horses and chariots pelops fears he needs and edge and bribes the shit out of oenomaus" engineer, Myrtilus he can have half of his kingdom and the first night with the bride yeah as if that would ever happen. Oenomaus crashes in this fatal chariot race and pelops wins the wife. Zeus is all abide by the rules next time fuckhead and is all against cheating which i find soooo hypocritical and warns about the consequences. Apollo and zeus are agents of order. Heracles prototypical athlete a civilizing hero olympic games are somewhat based on his tasks. He receives strength from his father, but not his metis. With the boar he kills something that was ravaging the land. In regards to clean stables of augeas, athena tells him to divert the river hercules gets wages for this task so it does not count.
