CLA204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aethiopis, Trojan War, Penthesilea
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The epic cycle of the trojan war and nostoi. Stories on trojan war belongs in the age of heroes. When the gods want to, they can get rid of an entire age of humans and start over: there is a notion that zeus wants to get rid of the heroes, there are many stories about wars. We are now in the age of iron. Helen is the daughter of leta and zeus: leta has 4 egg babies boy twins (castor and polux one god one mortal) + girl twins (helen + clytemnestra) Helen may be the daughter of nemesis and zeus: nemesis is the daughter of retribution. The story of the trojan war is told in the epic cycle and the homeric epic. We favour early stories over late stories. There are other poems attributed to other poets on the stories of the trojan wars.
