CLST 203 Lecture 14: CLST 203 Lecture 14 (Mar 6)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 203
• Professor: Graeme Ward

Document Summary

Clst 203 lecture 14: heracles/hercules march 6th. Homeric hymn to heracles (cid:862)i (cid:449)ill si(cid:374)g of he(cid:396)a(cid:272)les, the so(cid:374) of )eus a(cid:374)d (cid:373)u(cid:272)h the (cid:373)ightiest of (cid:373)e(cid:374) o(cid:374) ea(cid:396)th. Al(cid:272)(cid:373)e(cid:374)a (cid:271)o(cid:396)e hi(cid:373) in thebes, the city of lovely dances, when the dark-clouded son of cronos had lain with her. Zeus has many other mortal children, but heracles is the best (cid:862)a (cid:373)o(cid:396)tal of (cid:373)(cid:455) (cid:271)lood (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e (cid:271)o(cid:396)(cid:374) toda(cid:455) (cid:449)ho shall (cid:396)ule o(cid:448)e(cid:396) all (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) zeus (iliad 19) Argos, tiryns, thebes, and trachis (s. thessaly). Talks about his death and birth in trachis. Has two fathers, one mortal, one immortal. Family feud: hera speeds up the birth of eurystheus. Lord of tiryns: exile of amphitryon. Kills his brother electryon, king of mycenae. He is then exiled to thebes: while at thebes, marries alcmene. Zeus shows up while amphitryon is gone for a little. He is disguised as amphitryon and sleeps with alcmene.