ClSt / ComL 200

Lecture notes for Monday, February 8, 1999

Contexts for the Trojan saga

• Timeline
• Representations of poetic performance in early Greek poetry
• Hesiod's victory at the funeral games of Amphidamas
• Homer
• Phemius' song: Homecomings of the Greeks
• Demodocus
• First Song: Quarrel of Agamemnon and Odysseus
• Second Song: Love of Ares and Aphrodite
• Third Song: The Trojan Horse
• Artistic representations of the Trojan Saga
• The Francois Vase (c. 570 BC)
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Achilles and Troilus
• Achilles ambushes Troilus
• Troilus flees towards the city
• Funeral Games for Patroclus
• Ajax rescuing the body of Achilles
• Other representations
• Alternative versions of Homer's stories
• Odysseus and the Sirens