CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Capaneus, Tydeus, Battlefield 2
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Aeneas = trojan, son of aphrodite and anchises. Diomedes = greek, son of tydeus, a principal fighter. Sthenelus = greek, son of capaneus, diomedes" charioteer. Dione = goddess, mother of aphrodite (here, by zeus) She drapes her robe over him to stop the weapons from hitting him. She cries and goes to ares who gives her his chariot so she can run away to mt. Diomedes to aphrodite: i"m wounded, the pain"s too much, a mortal"s speared me -- that daredevil diomedes, he"d fight father zeus! Aphrodite to dione: the man who fights the gods does not live long. I swear she"s just been rousing another argive, another beauty to pant and lust for trojans . Athena to zeus: fighting is not for you, my child, the works of war. See to the works of marriage, the slow fires of longing. He goes to vulcania, his smithy, near the coast of sicily and aeolian lipari.