CLA204H1 Lecture : LEC08.docx
Document Summary
The fall of troy and its aftermath the iliad ends with funeral of hektor the odyssey mentions the trojan horse. Achilles killed by paris, who is also killed. Neoptolemos entering the war (one of the conditions for sack of troy) Odysseus and neoptolemos fatch philoktetes and his bow (2nd condition) Philoktetes kills paris (and deiphobos marries helen) The palladion (image of athena in troy as long as the image is in troy, troy cannot be defeated) is stolen by odysseus. Aeneas is seen as symbolic figure of rome. He is a priest and believes that the trojan horse is a greek trick. He took a spear and tried to put a hole on the horse but. Since the gods are on the greek"s side, they sent two huge snakes that killed laokoon and his sons. His face on the statue is seen as noble, simple, and silent.
