Mythos 4

Peleus and Thetis

get married, father and mother of acilles

Eris

discord, not invited to wedding, throws apple

judgement of Paris

he picks up apple after falls from troy, hera, athena and aphrodite offers gifts if he chooses them, aphrodite wins by offering hellen

Hellen

daughter of zeuz and leda, most beautiful, chose her husband menelaus and everyone had to agree to protect her marriage

menelaus

king of sparta, hellens husband, a stand up guy, fought in the war, brother of aga., greek

agamemnon

ugh, does not respect women, leader of the greeks, brother of menelaus , of mycenae

iphigenia

scarificed by agamemnon, also his OWN DAUGHTER cuz he angered Artemis

Diomedes

Sub of Achilles wounds Aphrodite and Ares, of argos

Nestor

talks a lot, for greeks, diplomat, of pylos

Ajax greater >

fights hector, for greeks, aristea, 2nd best, killed himself when he didnt get armor, rescued pat

Ajax lesser <

lesser in character, raped cass, was killed for this

Achilles

sweet golden boy can do no wrong

Patroclus

soulmate of achilles

myrmidons

ant people, greek men

odysseus

from ithaca, wise leader more of him later

gods on the side of greeks

hera, athena, poseidon, thetis, hephaetus, (zeus)

laomedon

Priam's father

king priam

king of troy, wife hecuba, had 50 sons and 15 daughters

queen hecuba

of troy, mother of paris

paris

alexander, kidnaped hellen, favored by aphrodite, exposed at birth, bad fighter

andromache

hectors wife

astyanax

hectors baby child, was scared of helmet, thrown off the walls

aeneas

destined to not die at troy to found athens, son of aphro and anchises

gods on the side of trojans

aphrodite, apollo, artemis, ares, (zeus)

heroic code

kudos and timē, praise and fame, aristeia geras (war booty), external validation

chryseis

concubine of aga. daughter of chryses a preist of apollo, because of her a plauge is sent

briseis

the most girlboss, slave girl of achilles, aga says he must give her up

calchas

priest, says to kill iphagenia, advises aga

catalog of ships

bk 2, out of place ,list of all the greek ships thousands

duel bk3

paris and menelaus, p is rescued by aphro, suspended narative

teichoscopia

view from the wall

pandarus

breaks truce, killed by diomedes

aristea of diomedes

bk 5, kills pandarus and a bunch of people, truces with glaucus

glaucus

troy side, related to dio, tells tale of bellerophon, xenia

embassy to achilles

bk 9, ajax, phoenix (tells meleager story), odysseus go to plead for his help

doloneia

bk 10, at night catch dolon a trojan spy, odys and dio do the same

Patrocleia

bk 16, dresses like achillies and lead the army, kills sarpedon, tries to climb the wall of try and is killed by hector with the help of apollo(fuck him) pat predicts the death of hector by achillies's hands

arms of achilles

bk 18 made my Hephaestus (my fav mirrorball) thetis begs him

sheild of achillies

ecphrasis

the wrath of achilles

directed at hector

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHG

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Theomachy

bk 20, the big shabang of the war, everyone gets involved, aeneas is saved by poseidon (he got plot armor)

death of hector

bk 22, hector flees, river xanthus is angry, killed by achillies and is tied by the foot and dragged

ranson for hectors body

priam shows up at camp and begs for the body of his son,

niobe

12 children boasts and is turned to stone punished dont be like her

queen penthesilea

achillies kills her, amazons

ajax the greaxer commits s8icide

he rescues the armor of achi. and its given to odysseus

Paris' aim

with apollo he shoots the heel of achillies

palladium

stolen by diomedes and odysseus statue of athena? with blood on their hands

philocretes

owns bow of hercules,

aeneid 2

by vergil, the fall of troy from their perspective

laocoon

not belived, beware gift bearing greeks!!!, strangeled could be constalation of ophiuchus

sinon

greek left behind to convince the trojans

ulixes

odysseus

pyrrhus

neoptolemus, son of achilles, kills paris with the bow of hercules also kills his whole fam and thows the baby off the walls

aeneas

a good man, fights for troy before leaving, sign of comet and divine fire over his sons head convinces him

creusa

aeneas wife she is killed in the burnning of troy

Anchises

aeneas dad he carried him on his back, he later died

Ascanius (iuius)

aeneas son the scared flame was over his head

Heinrich Schliemann

excavates troy

nostoi

homecomeings

agamemnons nostoi

returns to mycenae, wife clytemnestra trap and kills him, told in oresteia

odysseus's nostoi

LONG return to ithaca, finds danger awaiting, story told in the odyssey

ajax lesser nostoi

shipwrecked and drowned by athena for rapeing cassandra

nestor, diomedes, philoctetes, neoptolemus

all return safely and do their own thing

menelaus nostoi

long trip back to sparta, detour in egypt, reunion with helen

Aeschylus

only surviving trilogy, wrote oresteia (agamemnon, libation bearers, eumenides)

Inherited guilt

in the house of atreus, starting with tantalus

Tantalus

kills and cooks son pelops, serves to gods, punished and pelops is restored

pelops

son of tantalus, peloponnese named after him, wins wife in race

hippodamia

wife of pelops

niobe

her 12 children are killed by Artemis and apollo, daughter of tantalus

Thyestes

seduces his brother atreus' wife aerope

atreus

in revenge of his brother thyestes he kills his 2 sons and feeds them to him

aegisthus

son of thyestes and his own daughter, gives his grandfather revenge by killing aga. the son of atreus

cassandra

brought home as a concubine of aga., also killed by clyemnestra

clytemnestra

plans aga. death when he returns home because he sacrificed their own daughter, boasts ab the murders, killed by her son orestes

orestes

kills his mother and aegisthus, told by apollo, haunted by furies

electra

daughter of aga and clymn, daddys little girl

eumenides

new name for the furies, the kindly ones, as a apotropaic, trial by jury

homeric question

did homer write both the illad and odyssey?

Penelope

good wife of odysseus

telemachus

son of odyssesus mini adventure in bks 1-4 the telemacheia

mentor

athena in disguise helps telemachus

suitors

want penelo. abuse food and drink

antinous and eurymachus

main suitors

proteus

old man of the sea, seal, captured by memelaus tells him how to get home

calypso

daughter of atlas, trapped on ogygia, trapped ody with her for 7 years (name means to conceal)

Leucothea

ino as a sea goddess, rescuses ody in the sea strom

Phaeacians

where odys swims and ends up

alcinous and arete

king and queen of phaeacians, helped jason and medea

Nausicaa

daughter of alcinous and arete, ready for marriage

ciconians

odys men kill cattle on cicones and start a fight, storm becasue of this

lotus eaters

lotus casino vibes fr! narcotic food the men want to stay there

polyphemus

cyclops, (very famous) eats odys men, "nobody is killing me" curses odys name to his dad poseidon

aeolus

king of winds, gives bag of winds to get home, ods men fuck it up and they get lost again after letting all the winds out

lacstrygonians

giant cannables, destroy 11 out of 12 ships

circe

aea, #girlbosswtich, turns men into pigs, loves odys convinces him to stay for a year

eurylochos

one man to not get turned into pig, warns odys

moly

given by hermes as a preventative antidote