CLA 10 Lecture 20: CLA10 Ch20 (Trojan War, Achilles, Homer)
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Chapter 20 the background to the trojan war and achilles; homer and achilles. The other gods had immediately recognized the stew as human flesh and tantalus is forever punished in the. Underworld with hunger and thirst: zeus puts pelops back together and hephaestus fits in an ivory shoulder (to replace the part demeter ate) Pelops later comes to elis (near olympia) to win the hand of hippodamia. She was to be the bride of the suitor who could beat her father in a chariot race: her father oenoma s would give the suitor a head start, ride behind him and cut off his head. Pelops had tireless horses given to him by his lover, poseidon, shaker of the earth. Pelops" bribe was that myrtilus could have hippodamia for the first night pelops does not honor this. But then pelops then throws myrtilus from a cliff, as mytilus curses the house of pelops forever.
