CLA204H1 Lecture 8: Lecture 8.docx
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Troy and its aftermath: the nostoi of agamemnon. Achilles, hero of iliad, does not live to see the fall of troy: killed by paris (with help from apollo) There are 3 conditions for winning the war: neoptolemos summoned, fetch philoktetes and his bow, odysseus steals the palladion. Achilles had affair with princess deidamia: neoptolemos (aka pyrrhus) their son, is summoned from skyros (one of three conditions for the sack of troy) Odysseus and neoptolemos (or diomedes) sail to lemnos to fetch. Philoktetes kills paris (his brother deiphobos marries helen) Odysseus steals the palladion: as long as the cult image (palladion) in troy, it cannot be defeated. Aeneas important in roman myth, he is the founder of the tribe. Conditions were learnt through a seer, named helenos. Laokoon is a priest who is suspicious of the trojan horse. Two huge snakes grasp laokoon and his sons. Statues where he is struggling for his life.