GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: W. B. Yeats, Thyestes, Aegisthus

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: James Hume

Document Summary

Zeus is disguised as a swan and rapes princess leda. A sudden blow: he holds her helpless breast upon his breast. leda and the swan, wb yeats. As shudder i the loin engenders there the broken wall the burning roof and tower and. Agamemnon dead leda and the swan: helen of sparta/troy (result of zeus"s rape to leda, causes war between greeks and trojans. Was there another troy for her to burn? . Medea is a kind of helen figure, she has powers that are beyond her control. Helen is different but she has that power as well. The story is not true; you did not go in the well-benched ships, nor did you go to the towers of. Homer does not begin the trojan war from double egg, but he hurries to the action and snatches the listener in to the middle of things [in medias res] . Leda gives birth to two sets of twins.