CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 55: Greek Mythology, Sea Monster, Phocus
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King laomedon plans on building a town where one of zeus" holy sites used to be needs to be careful to follow rules/law on sacred ground already set up for failure. He is busy trying to build troy, needs help to build, help other than human hands, the two most powerful olympians after zeus, apollo and. Poseidon, present themselves as disguised help for hire, the gods are disguised as a test gold is an acceptable payment to the gods . Laomedon refuses to pay them because he doesn"t feel like he owes them anything. Laomedons faithlessness already indicates paris" betrayal of host and country later - paris is his grandson. Poseidon fights against troy because she never got paid, and athena has her own reasons. Achilles ends hector"s life he seals troy"s fate no one could stand in. Trojan war was a family affair/personal business odyssesus was the one who had the idea for the horse.
