ENGL 2444 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scheria, Golden Fleece, Theoclymenus

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2444
• Professor: Richard L. Phillips

Document Summary

Injured aphrodite karma: return by land, helenus and andromeche, found his own colony, marry hermoine child of menelaus and helen, killed by aresteus at delphi, tantalus. Agamemnon and clytemnestra: sacrifice of iphigenia, clymenestra and aigisthus, feast of thyestes revenge, sleeps with clytemnestra. Libation bearers: orestes (cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to argos (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith trophius a(cid:374)d (cid:448)isits his father"s to(cid:373)(cid:271) (cid:894)li(cid:374)es (cid:1005) . The furies: athens, trial of orestes (hill of ares, athena favors orestes, aeropagus, orestes acquitted, myth set in mycenae. Ho(cid:373)er"s od(cid:455)sse(cid:455) (cid:1005)-4 (return of the greeks after the trojan war: book 1: ithaca = 20 years after trojan war began, prologue. Invocation of muses: odysseus: alive or dead, builds up importance of odysseus (not on stage) Where is your ship?: he eats 6 of odysseus men, odysseus gets polyphemus drunk, once he passes out he pokes his eye out (blinding pf.