CL 28 - Classical Mythology
Homer and the Bronze Age

Achilles - Thetis and Peleus
Agamemnon - Clytemnestra - Iphigeneia - Orestes - Electra
Menelaos - Helen - Hermione
Odysseus - Penelope - Telemachos
Ajax
Nestor
Demodocus
Calydonian Boar Hunt - Aitolians
Jason and the Argonauts
Cadmus of Thebes
Minyas
Patroklos
Diomedes
Aeneas

Homer (8th c. BC)
Chios
Iliad
Odyssey

Peisistratos
Kypria
Aithiopis
Ilioupersis

Nostoi - the returns

Epic Poetry
Heroic Epic
Bronze Age (3000-1100 BC)
Iron Age (1100-700 BC)
dactylic hexameter (-uu -uu -uu -uu -uu --)
epithets
formulaic phrases
xenia
kleos
time'
Iolkos, Thebes, Orchomenos, Athens, Mycenae, Tiryns, Sparta, Pylos, Ithaca

Leda
Tyndareus
Helen
Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces): the Dioscuri
Clytemnestra
Mt. Pelion
Chiron
Eris, goddess of strife
King Priam, ruler of Troy
Queen Hecabe (Hecuba) of Troy
Paris, their son (Alexander)
Hector, Paris's brother
Andromache, his wife
Calchas, prophet
Skyros
Aulis
Mysia - King Telephus
Philoctetes
Protestilaus

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