CLASSIC 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homeric Question, Sophocles, Minoan Civilization
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Achaeans sack trojan city, claim chryseis and briseis. Agamemnon will only release chryseis if achilles gives him briseis, which almost invokes a fight that athena stops. Achilles prays to his mother, thetis the sea-nymph, to harm agamemnon and the. Thetis appeals to her father, zeus king of the gods, and he in return promises to help the greeks. Paris, who stole helen, challenges a single achaean to single combat. Paris and menelaus duel, only to have aphrodite intervene and remove paris from combat. Soothsayer helenus gets hector to ask his mother and her noblewoman to pray for the. Paris was being a brat, so hector and helen forced him to go back out into the battle. Hector sees his wife, who believes he will die in battle, and his smiling child before returning to battle with paris. 1800-1200bc linear a writing (minoans), linear b writing (myceneans: bronze age, minoans didn"t speak greek, though characters look and sounds the same.
