[CLA232H1] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (91 pages long!)
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Landing in thrace; ghost of polydonus; treachery of thracian king. Delos: apollo"s oracle - seek mother of old. Crete ruled by teucer/trojan ancestor - attempts to found city thwarted by plague. Vision of hearth gods - go to hesperia (home of dardanus) Assault of harpies, prophecy of celaeno - eat tables. Actium, athletic contests; buthrotum - visit with helenus and andromache: prophecy of white snow with scylla, charybdoia, sibyl, pyrrhus = killed by orestes. Aeneas forgets cruesa telling him of hesperia - forgets prophecies. Interlude between 2 intense episodes - variety of pace. Roman qualities superimposed as legendary past; aeneas grows into role as founder and hero - learn to grow & forget past. Odyssey: polyphemus, harpies/cattle of helios, bad with animals - 2nd major event instead of last like odyssey. Aeneas as blind as his men unlike o. Encounter with polydorus and meeting with andromache, acceptance of achaemenides - escape from cyclops - mixing invention.
