Lecture 25 Flashcards
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Ovid’s Trojan War and the Iliad
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- sacrifice of Iphigenia
- theft of Helen
2
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How do the Trojan’s find out war is coming
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- Rumor tells them
- idea depicted as a god
3
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Achilles and Cycuns and Caenis/Caenus
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- Cycnus is son of Neptune
- Cycnus and Caenus are both invulnerable because of Neptune
- both experience transformation into birds
- Cycnus is choked to death by Achilles
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Caenis
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- raped by Neptune and he grants her a wish after this act
- wishes that she wasn’t a woman anymore to no longer be in such a powerless position in society
- then changes into Caenus
- He dies by being burried by pieces of rock/house they’re in by the Centaurs
- Centaur insults Caenus’ origin as a woman and taunts him by saying that he should be doing women’s work
5
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Lapiths and Centaurs
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- Faught by: Caenus, Heracles, Nestor, Thesus, Pelias
- centaurs can’t handle their booze and one gets too drunk and starts a fight and steals the bride and all the other centaurs then steal other women
- very violent
- lots of unnecessary death and murder of innocent people
6
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Achilles’ death
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- Neptune is mad at Achilles for killing his son Cycnus so he tells Apollo who tells pairs who shoots an arrow at Achilles and fatally wounds him
- the Greeks then hold games in his honor and the centerpiece is a competition on who will get his armor
7
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Ajax’s Arguments for the Armor
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Achilles’ cousin and a descendant of Jove
- Slanders Ulysses by saying he’s related to Sisyphus (criminal of the underworld)
- Ulysses is too weak to lift the armor and it will give away his stealth and hiding spot
- says he’s never been wounded
- fought Hector one on one and didn’t come out a loser and he was the only one to have done that
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Ulysses’ Argument for the Armor
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- Argues that the only reason they have the armor is that he carried the body back with the armor
- Says Ajax won’t be able to understand the images inscribed upon it and he wouldn’t appreciate the artistic nature of it.
- Says that lineage doesn’t matter, and he’s related to the gods in the same way
- Mentions that there are other heroes who are related in much the same way that are not staking a claim
- Slander’s Ajax’s father Telemann who was kicked out of side for fratricide
- Claims that this is a battle of merit not strength or who you’re related to
- Persuades Agamemnon to focus on state matters which meant sacrificing his daughter for the sake of the army
- Goes to Clytemnestra to persuade her to allow Iphigenia to go along
- Kills king Rhesus and steals the chariot and that he volunteered for that
- Ulysses manipulates the story and claims that everything Achilles accomplished was because he revealed that Achilles was hiding out as a girl and was then forced to go to war when he was revealed.
- Prevented Greeks from retreating
- Stole the Palladium: statue of Pallas Minerva which was said to give some magical power to the city to protect them
9
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The Fall of Troy
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- Hector’s son Astanax is thrown from the walls of Troy.
- The princess Polyxena is sacrificed as a bride to the ghost of Achilles
- The prince Polydorus is found dead, who was entrusted to the Thracian king, Polymestor, for safety
- Hecuba blinds Polymestor, and she is then turned into a hound
10
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Galatea and Polyphemus
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- Polyphemus has tried ot civilize himself
- lost taste for blood
- He is in love with Galatea and she didn’t want anything to do with him because she was in love with Acis
- Polyphemus later smashed Acis under a rock so Galatea changed him into a river god
11
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Scylla and Glaucus
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- Glaucus picks some grass and eats it and turns into a sea god
- He is pursing Scylla and as soon as she sees him she runs away.
- Glaucus sought help from Circe
