ClSt/ComL 200

Lecture Notes for Monday, March 15, 1999

"Greek Myths and Roman Empire"

Timeline

Roman Myths?

Janus
Venus

Hesiod on Italy

Homer on the future of Troy

Hellenization

Outline of Greek Mythology according to Apollodorus

Book 1:

Birth of the Gods (after Hesiod)
Descendants of Deucalion:

Hellen
Doros	Xouthus		Aeolus
	Achaeus	Ion

Map of the Migrations of the Greek Tribes

Jason and the Argonauts

Book 2:

Mythology of Argos
Heracles

Book 3:

Mythology of Crete
Mythology of Thebes
Myhtology of Arcadia
Mythology of Laconia
Mythology of Athens

Epitome

The House of Pelops

Tantalus
Pelops and Hippodameia
Atreus and Thyestes
Agamemnon and Menelaus

The Trojan War

Beginnings
Summary of Homer's Iliad
Returns of the Greek heroes
Summary of Homer's Odyssey
Subsequent Career of Odysseus