Class notes for 1/30/12

1/30
Promitheus and Io themes:
-falling in love with Zeus a bad idea
-mortals are always the ones who are punished, never the gods
-Hera's jealousy appears more than once in the myths
 Greeks (Acheans, Argives)
-Achilles ( his name means misery and anguish to the host)
-Ajax (big and little)
-Agammemnon (Atrides)
-Menelaus (also Atrides)
 -Nestor (his name means "homecoming")
-Calchas (a seer, could foretell the future; soothsayer)

(Helen is in between)
Trojans
-Hector (brother of Paris)
-Paris
-Priam (Paris' father)
-Chryseis (Agammemnon's prize of battle, greek word for this is géras; daughter of Chryses)
-Chryses (priest of Apollo)
-Bhryseis (Achille's prize, treasure, booty)
-Bhryses (Bhryseis' father)
-Cryses begs for Atrides for his daughter with a ransom

Rape- carrying off, or capturing (ex. rape of helen)