CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Telemachus, Hisarlik, Heinrich Schliemann
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Hn (eta) is for helen; it is also a number, 100, (like delta). Helen is the cause (mythical cause) of the trojan war. Thesis was immortal, and she wanted her baby son to live forever. To make him immortal, she dipped in the river of styx. She didn"t get his heel wet, so his plan to make him immortal never worked. King peleus thought she was an unfit mother, so he sent her to be brazed by a centaur named. He was responsible for the education of other heroes (e. g. percius). When achilles grew up, he joined the myceneans to attack troy. The reason they attacked troy, because a woman controlled it. It started with zeus and his wandering eye. Zeus fell in love with the queen of sparta, leda. He apeared to her in the shape of a swan. The result of this liaison was an egg.