CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anchises, Clytemnestra, Polymestor
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The shield represents the world he has given up (city at peace and at war) She turns his blood into a river. Brought back the body of achilles with the help of odysseus. Contest with odysseus, but odysseus has more metis, so he wins. Cousin to achilles and patroclus, all of them become casualties. Raped cassandra in the temple of the gods. So all the greeks would pay by being punished by athena. Doesn"t ask zeus to give anchises immortality. Facilitates the killing of the finest young man, the arrow of paris is redirected so it hits achilles in the heal. By killing achilles he keeps him forever young, forever in the realm of apollo. She constantly warns the trojans of defeat and even the horse. Early on she refused apollo so he made it so she would know the truth but no one would believe her. She was dragged from troy to serve as a concubine to agamemnon.
