CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Myrtilus, Thyestes, Atreus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Maybe struggles/curse is what made the heroes great. Pelops and fed it to gods cept the gods knew it so didn"t eat it, but demeter to distracted from loss of persephone so she bit into shoulder. Gods put tantalus back together but missing shoulder so made him a prosthetic shoulder (recall: also cursed in underworld) Myrtilus and the curse: pelops bribed myrtilus to turn and betray oenomeus either by leaving the chariot"s pin out that connect chariot with horses or but a wax one in there. Atreus and thyestes they were the two sons of pelops and hippodamia they hated each other. Agamemnon and aegisthus: aegisthus is son of thyestes who either was the youngest son or born after banquet, agamemnon"s family: clytemnestra, iphegenia. He succeed his father atreus has king of mycenae and he married clytemnestra. Agamemnon comes home after 10 yrs and he got princess of cassandra with him as prize.