CLAS 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Sea Monster, Helenus, Greek Basket League
9 Dec 2016
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Leda, wife to the king of sparta, bore 4 children to zeus, who visited her as a swan: polydeuces, helen, castor, clytemnestra. Instead they were granted joint immortality - spend alternating days in hades and on olympus: as gods they are connected with seafarers, particularly honored at sparta. The trojan prince paris seduced helen and took her back to troy with him: to recover her and vindicate the rights of menelaus, agamemnon (his brother) led the achaean expedition against troy. The olympian gods were guests at a wedding feast of peleus and thetis. Sailed to troad and married the king"s daughter and built a city called by his name. Land was called dardania and its inhabitants dardani. The royal house of troy is descended from him. The king of troy, who cheated apollo and poseidon (disguised as mortals) of their pay, who built the walls of troy.
