MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter After The Iliad: Clytemnestra, Appeasement, Aeschylus
20 Nov 2016
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Due to aeneid from latin poet vergil, we learn how troy fell. Inspired by iliad and odyssey: represented rome as founded by trojan refugees under aeneas. Amazons, under one great amazonian warrior penthesilea, come to help the trojans. Achilles falls in love with penthesilea, or at least accused of doing so by the foul-mouthed greek. Thersites angry at these rumors, achilles kills penthesilea and thersites. King memnon of ethiopia also comes to help trojans manages to kill greek hero antilochus. Paris kills achilles by shooting him in his heel, his one true weak spot: thetis had achilles dipped in the styx river as a baby, but did not submerge his heel. Odysseus and great ajax carry his body off the field odysseus keeps the armor, and great. Aja(cid:454) kills hi(cid:373)self (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause he did(cid:374)"t get the ar(cid:373)or. Oracle tells greeks they need hercules weapons to take troy sends greeks ulysses and.
