Post-Bellum%20Greece

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Post-Bellum Greece

• Spanning the Gap from The Iliad to The Odyssey

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Achilles in Love

• Amazons and Penthesilea
• Polyxena, Princess of Troy
• Peace negotiations
• Achilles slain by poisoned arrow
• Body rescued by Odysseus and T. Ajax

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The Fall of Ajax

• Armor of Achilles disputed
• Given to Odyssey (wisdom over valor)
• Ajax enraged, dreams of slaughtering camp
• Awakes to find he slaughtered sheep
• Commits suicide in shame

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Death of Paris

• Philoctetes, friend of Hercules reaches Troy
• Brings Arrows of Hercules
• Kills Paris

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Trojan Horse

• Greeks realize Troy cannot be taken by force
• Odysseus comes up with Trojan Horse
• Lacaocoon, priest of Neptune warned against
• I fear Greeks even when they offer gifts
• Sinon, Greek traitor convinces Trojans to ignore
• Night Odysseus and others open Gates of Troy

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Death of Priam

• Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles
• Slaughters Priam on steps Apollos temple
• Sacrifices Polyxena to appease fathers spirit
• Enslaves Andromache
• Throws Astyanax from walls of Troy
• Cassandra captured and raped by Oilean Ajax
• Hecuba goes insane

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Andromache

• Story told in Euripedes eponymous play
• Becomes Pyrrhus concubine
• Bears his children
• Hated by wife Hermione (sterile)
• Pyrrhus killed by Orestes
• Marries Helenus, last son of Priam

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