CLA 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Matricide, Thyestes, Ascanius
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Chapter 21 the fall of troy and its aftermath: troy after achilles. Stories of the trojan war are told by other epic poets around homer"s iliad. These poems are called the epic cycle (homeric cycle) only fragment and summaries of them survive. The fall of troy recounted in full by roman poet virgil (20 bce: aeneas, the only trojan prince to survive, will found the roman race; how he does so is the story of virgil"s aeneid. The aeneid explains the origins of roman power: virgil modeled his epic poem on those of homer, but wrote it for a roman audience for a roman purpose. The trojan war resumes in full force after the death of hector, in its tenth (and final) year. The only such heroic suicide in greek myth: further adventures after achilles, odysseus sneaks into troy disguised as a beggar in order to steal a statue of athena.
