CLA402H1 Lecture Notes - Amasis Painter, Mise En Abyme, Homeric Hymns
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Diomedes in his bloodlust during the trojan war encounters glaukos. Glaukos stops him, and tells him a story of his lineage in which he reveals that his and diomedes" grandfathers were guest-friends of each other. Thus they cannot kill one another and instead swap armor as a token of friendship. Diomedes says he will not fight against any god and gives the example of lycurgus who opposes. Lists semele as his past lover, who was mother to dionysus. Hera had tricked semele to ask zeus to show himself in his true form. He sews dionysus into his thigh and later gives birth to him. Odysseus recounting the women we saw in the underworld. Dionysus takes ariadne has his lover and turns her crown into a star, immortalizing her. But in this version it predisposes that dionysus and ariadne already had an affair and then she left for theseus, and dionysus has her killed.