CLA402H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homeric Hymns, Satyr Play, Homer
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During the trojan war diomedes, consumed in his bloodlust, encounters glaukos. Glaukos is defeated and before he is killed, tells diomedes 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 opposed. Hera had tricked semele into asking zeus to show himself in his true form (lightning bolt). Zeus then sewed dionysus into his thigh and later gives birth to him. Odysseus recounting the women he saw in the underworld. He had turned her crown into a star, immortalizing her. In this version it predisposes that dionysus and ariadne had already had n affair and then she left for theseus. Agamemnon"s shade to achilles, describing the latter"s funeral.
