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Leda's Children
Leda and Zeus (as a swan) |
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Castor and Clytemnestra
(Immortal Egg):
Helen and Polydeuces |
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| Tamer of horses and mortal |
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skilled in boxing and immortal |
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Polydeuces picks to spend half year in Mt. Olympus and another half in the underworld, instead of him being immortal or Castor dying.
Shared immortality of Castor and Polydeuces
Patrons of sailors (seafarers) |
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Menelaus, (first husband & King of Sparta), mother of Hermione
The seduction of Helen and the start of the Trojan War |
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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Eris, Goddess of discord and the golden apple ("for the most beautiful")
Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite vie for honor
Paris chosen by Zeus to settle dispute
Hermes leads goddesses to Paris for his judgement
Aphrodite wins with offer of Helen |
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Priam and Hecuba
Paris
Hector, Andromache, Astyanax
Cassandra and Polyxena
Aeneas |
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50 sons and 12 (or 50) daughters
Hecuba as tragic figure
Laomedon's son, Podacres (Priam). |
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Paris and Oenone, a nymph with power to heal
Paris grows to maturity and is received back into Priam's house
Favorite of Aphrodite
Paris ultimately kills Achilles |
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| kill herself when Paris died because she didn't heal him when he got wounded. |
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| Hector, Andromache, Astyanax |
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Hector, brother of Paris (Greatest of Troy's defenders)
Andromache, Hector's wife
Astyanax, infant son of Hector and Andromache |
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Cassandra, daughter of Priam, Prophetess though never believed, Killed by Clytemnestra
Polyxena, final virgin sacrifice before the tomb of Achilles |
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Founder of Rome (Future leader of Rome and Troy)
Son of Anchises and Aphrodite
Prophecy about Aeneas and his descendant: future rulers of Troy
Significant in Roman legends (e.g., Vergil's Aeneid) |
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| Agamemnon, Menelaus, Diomedes, Nestor, Ajax the Greater, Ajax the Less, Odysseus, Achilles,Phoenix and Patroclus |
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King of Mycenae
"Lord of Men"
Leader of expedition against Troy
Greatest in prestige
Teichoskopia ("Viewing from the wall") |
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King of Sparta
Brother of Agamemnon
Husband of Helen |
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King of Argos and a great warrior
Favored by Athena
Wounds Ares and Aphrodite
Associated with Odysseus
The Palladium, talisman for Troy |
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King of Pylos
Oldest and wisest of the Greeks at Troy
"His speech flowed more sweetly than honey"
He survives the war |
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| Ajax the Greater of Salamis |
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Warrior / wants Achilles armor
shame of killing sheep (turns out its his man thus killing himself)
Son of Telamon
Bulwark of the Achaeans
Foil and rival of Odysseus
Straightforward, brusque |
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| Ajax the Less (or Lesser) |
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Prince of Locrians, son of Oileus
Violation of Cassandra and his punishment |
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Attempt to avoid war by feigning madness
King of Ithaca
Husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus
Crafty, cunning, of persuasive speech |
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parents Peleus and Thetis
his son Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus)
Prince of the Myrmidons in Phthia
Greatest of Greek warriors
Swift-footed, handsome
educated by the centaur Chiron
fate: early death with glory, or long life without glory
disguised as girl and sent to Scyros
disguise: unmasked by Odysseus
Achilles and Deidamia, daugther of Lycomedes, King of Sycros=> Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) |
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Prince of Phthia, father of Achilles, son of Aeacus and brother of Telamon
Death of Phocus, exile of Peleus to Phythia, and his purification by Eurytion
Participation in the Calydonian boar hunt
Accidental death of Eurytion
Purification by Acastus, son of Pelia and king of Iolcus
Acastus' wife, Astydamia, falls in love with Peleus
Acastus attempts to kill Peleus but fails.
Son of Peleus and Thetis destined to be greater than the father=>Achilles |
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Unwilling wife of Peleus
A Nereid ("child of Nereus")
Attempts to escape from Peleus
Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
She leaves Peleus not long after the birth of Achilles
Thetis attempts to make Achilles immortal except for his heel |
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Banished by his father
Welcomed by peleus
Companion and tutor to Achilles |
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Also received by Peleus
Closest companion of Achilles
Later tradition would see them as lovers |
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| The Gathering of the Expedition at Aulis |
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Aulis, on the coast of Boeotia, opposite of Euboea
Roughly 1,200 ships
Sacrifice Iphigenia
Anger of Artemis (damage that they did not commit but what will commit/hatred in their heart) |
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Isles of the blessed
Elysian field |
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| everyone go to underworld |
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Son of Poeas
Island of Chryse and Philoctetes' wound
Abandonment of Philoctetes on Lemnos
Bow of Heracles and the fate of Troy
Philoctetes kills Paris |
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2PBWA (Priest, Plague, Brisei, Wrath, arete)
3TFE (Theophany, Thetis, Truce, Farewell, Embassy)
VSDKU (Victory, Struggle, Death, Killed, Unquenchable)
SRHMJ (Shield, Return, Hector, Mutilation, Journey)
RB (Relents, Burial) |
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Wounded in the heel by Paris with the aid of Apollo
Corpse recovered by Ajax
Ghost of Achilles and the sacrifice of Polyxena |
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| Odysseus and Ajax compete for the armor of Achilles |
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Disgrace of Ajax, his madness and suicide
Sophocles' Ajax |
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| The deaths of Paris and Priam |
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Summons of Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) and Philoctetes
Philoctetes kills Paris
Neoptolemus butchers Priam |
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Epus
Homer's Odyssey
Odysseus role
Sinon
Laocoon's fear of the Horse and his death, along with his two sons |
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The Wooden Horse is brought inside Troy
Greeks return from Tenedos
Slaughter of Trojans
Violation of Cassandra and her eventual murder
Hecuba's transformation; Cynossems ("dog's tomb) |
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| Meleager and the Calydonian boar hunt |
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After the Calydonian boar hunt Meleager , in a quarrel, killed his uncle, brother of his mother Althaea.
In grief Althaea prays for the death of her son
Attempt to appease Meleager so that he returns to battle
Cleopatra, Meleager's wife, successfully appeals to him, but he returns to late to receive the earlier offer of reward |
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Agamemnon's return and murder (unsuccessful)
Mnelaus return to Sparta (successful)
Nestor's return to Pylos (successful) |
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Elements of folktale and romantic legends grafted onto the saga
Adventures of Odysseus followed by a captivity of a seven years on the island of Ogygia with Calypso, his location at the beginning of Homer's Odyssey
20 years away from home (10 yrs from home and 10 yrs going back to Ithaca) |
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