ClSt / ComL 200

Lecture notes for Wednesday, February 10, 1999 and Monday, February 15, 1999

The Trojan War Cycle and the Homeric Poems

 

	Greeks characters	Trojan characters	Major Events
Cypria from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis up to the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles			the abduction of Helen
Homer's Iliad the anger of Achilles	Helen		Diomedes fights with Aeneas Diomedes and Athena Aeneas and Aphrodite Hera's seduction and deception of Zeus The Armor of Achilles Hephaestus and Thetis (1, 2) Achilles recieves his armor from Thetis Ransom of Hector's body
	Menelaus	Paris / Alexandros
	Agamemnon	Priam Hecuba
	Achilles Briseis	Hector Andromache Astyanax
	Patroclus	Sarpedon
	Diomedes	Glaucus
	Ajax	Pandarus
	Odysseus	Aeneas
Aethiopis from the coming of the Amazons to the suicide of Ajax			Achilles fights Memnon Achilles Memnon and Eos Death of Achilles fight over Achilles' body
Little Iliad from the death of Achilles to the fall of Troy and the departure of the Greek forces
Iliupersis the sack of Troy			General scene The death of Priam Rape of Cassandra and theft of the Palladium by Ajax the Less; escape of Aeneas and Anchises escape of Aeneas and Anchises
Nostoi the disastrous homecomings of the Greek heroes
Homer's Odyssey the homecoming of Odysseus	Main Characters	Odysseus' Adventures
	On Ithaca: Odysseus Penelope Telemachus Laertes Phemius Eumaeus Eurykleia On Scheria: Alcinous Arete Nausicaa Demodocus	Cicones
		Lotus Eaters
		Cyclops (Polyphemus)
		Aeolus
		Lastrygonians
		Circe
		Land of the Dead	• Odysseus and Elpenor (and Hermes) • Odysseus consulting Tiresias
		Sirens	• Bird-like Sirens swooing down on Odysseus' ship
		Scylla and Charybdis
		Cattle of the Sun
		Calypso
Telegonia from the homecoming of Odysseus to his death