CLA2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Polyphemus, Hisarlik, Sea Peoples

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA2102
• Professor: Rajiv Bhola

Document Summary

The trojan war and the end of the palaces. (eta) is for helen, hekaton: leda and the swan, menelaus. Trojan war: agamemnon vs priam, agamemnon"s sacrifice. Achilles, son of peleus & thetis: immortality, chiron the centaur. Epic cycle of the trojan war: cypria. Homer: iliad (ilion, ilium, odyssey (odysseus, homeric question. Odyssey: quest of odysseus: odysseus & the trojan horse (c/f p. 53, quest for ithaka, scylla & charybdis, polyphemos, the cyclops (c/f p. 54) The search for the trojan war: calvert: hisarlik, schliemann. What really caused the trojan war: hellespont, helle. Troy & downfall of mycenaeans: sea peoples (c/f p. 56, warrior vase (c/f p. 45) Images: trojan horse (c/f p. 53), polyphemos, the cyclops (c/f p. 54), sea peoples (c/f p. 56), People: polyphemos, helen, achilles, thetis, peleus, chiron, leda, eris, aphrodite, hera, Athena, agamemnon, priam, hector, odysseus, homer, polyphemos, calvert, schliemann, sea. What is one example: give an example of a modern trojan horse".