CMLT316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Minyades, Orality, Trojan War
6 Apr 2017
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Evidence that the citadel around 1180 bce was attacked and severely damaged and perhaps the memories of this destruction that we find reflected in these stories. Helen is most beautiful women of greece since daughter of zeus. Marries menelaus leader of city state of sparta. Thetis is a sea nymph; her destiny is to have a child were her son will overtake his father. The apple is tossed in saying for the fairest. Athena, hera, and aphrodite fights over it and this leads to the judgment of paris. Hera promises paris power over large area of land however he is already a prince and already has power. Athena promises wisdom, paris thinks what would i need wisdom for. Aphrodite promises him the most beautiful women to marry- she wins. Paris seduces helen and takes her back to troy from sparta; takes her from her husband. All of these collective myths together creates the trojan cycle- all surrounds helen.
