The Trojan War
-The Golden Apple started the Trojan War, at Thetis + Pelius wedding. (Achilles parents)
-Eris (Goddess of strife) crashes the wedding and rolls the Golden apple
-Apple of discord says "for the fairest."
-Hera, Aphrodite, Athena dispute who deserves the apple
-The other gods find Paris (random mortal who knows nothing of the gods)
Paris: youngest son of King Priam, shipped off to the wilderness because of a prophecy that he will lead to the downfall of troy. A Knucklehead.
-Hera offers him power
-Aphrodite offers him the most beautiful woman
Athena offers him wisdom
-Picks the most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy
-Menelaus is Helen's husband: becomes very angry
-Pact of Tyndarius: Helen's father Created by Odysseus
-Penelope would marry Odysseus would –other suitors must protect Helen
-Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus was main king of Greece
-They go to rescue Helen- the Greeks (Agamemnon) wage war
-Ready to set sail, Artemis (goddess of the hunt) insists the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter.
-Clytemnestra: Agamemnon's wife does not take the sacrifice well.
-Odysseus pretends to be crazy by plowing the beach but his baby is dropped in the way so he stops. Thus, he was proven not crazy
-A short film about the Mythology of Greece followed these notes
-Myths: tales of supernatural things that still give humanity a moral or understanding of aspects of life.
-Legend: based in fact with human characters
Greek Mythology includes both Legend and mythology but create very useful stories.
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