CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trojan War, Melanau People, Odysseus
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Source of all trouble concerning women: pandora"s box = box of trouble = vagina. Hope remains in the jar (symbolic of childbirth, expectations: created by zeus as punishment for stealing fire and giving it to humans. Prometheus (the one who has forsight) gives pandora to epimethus. Didactic: hesiod wrote the story of pandora in works and days. Leda the wife of the spartan king raped by zeus who came to her as a swan. She become pregnant and lays eggs: two are her husband"s kids and other two are zeus"s kids one of those children is helen. Ab ovo = latin for starting a story at the beginningat the egg: homer starts in the middle of the story, not at the beginning. *paris a spartan prince judges a beauty contest aphrodite wins so she offers paris the most beautiful woman in the world to be his wife (helen: ten years later there is still a war in troy.
