PHLC35H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20-21: Priam, Thyestes, Golden Fleece
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Module 3 kings who led greek expedition to troy came from house of atreus, which ruled the argive plain from either mycenae or. Tantalus had invited the gods over for a feast and served them his chopped-up son, pelops, to test their omniscience. Everyone realized except demeter, who ate a bit of pelops" shoulder. Hermes resurrected pelops by putting his pieces back in the pot and boiling them again: pelops came out again, minus the shoulder given a shoulder made of ivory. At this time oenomaus ruled as a king over pisa, a village in nw pelopponesus: oenomaus was in love with his own daughter hippodamia. She refused his sexual advances, but he wouldn"t let anyone marry her. Offered her as a prize in an unwinnable contest. Oenomaus, who had a team of horses sired by the wind, always caught up with the suitors, speared them.
