-Thetis and Pelias get married
-get the banquet at Mount Olympus
-invite all of the gods except Eris or Ate (Roman: Discordia)
-she creates a golden apple and inscribes on it καλλιστε (pulcherrimae)
-Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena fight over who is the most beautiful
-want Jupiter to decide
-Aphrodite (foam-born)
-Uranus (sky)
-had six kids with Gaea but didn't want any kids to be born because the story
was that if he ever had a male son, the son would usurp him
-Gaea gets κρονος born and attack you dad and make it impossible for him to
ever impregnate Gaea again
-κρονος and Rhea reproduce and has twelve kids
-Cronus doesn't want to be overthrown so he ate them
-doesn't eat Jupiter/Zeus
-the twelve kids become the Olympians
-the Titans are from a Greek verb that means "to stretch"
-Jupiter asks Apollo to find the most handsome man
-because girls didn't like Apollo
-Apollo says Paris of Troy
-Apollo had a priestess that when you paid her would tell you the answer to
anything you wanted
-Oracle at Delphi (Belly button of the ancient world)
-Jupiter had a relationship with Ganymedes
-literally means "gleaming balls"
-Jupiter's favorite tryst
-Ganymedes is largest of the Jupiter's moons
-Ganymedes becomes the standard bearer (cup carrier) and he replaces Hebe
-Jupiter was an eagle and whipped Ganymedes to Olympus
-Ganymedes always wanted to fly and ties himself to the leg of the eagle
-he is the one exception of a human becoming an immortal
-Priam became the king of Troy and had 50 sons and 50 daughters (25 sons and
25 daughters and spouses)
-his wife is Hecuba
-has Hektor
-Cassandra can predict the future but no one will believe her
-Paris inherited the genes of Ganymedes
-Priam and Hecuba have Paris and see a glowing sky
-go to the Oracle at Delphi and she tells them "Your son will kill you and be
the destruction of your kingdom."
-sends kid into the woods with huntsman and is told to kill him
-tie Paris to a tree and a Shepard and his wife find him
-shepard prays to Hera to get a baby and one day he sees a baby in a tree
-Paris is told by the Oracle that he will kill his father and destroy his family
(similar to Oedipus)
-the gods each offer Paris something
-Juno/Hera says she can give him power
-Venus/Aphrodite says she can give him the most beautiful women in the
world
-Minerva/Athena says she can make him brilliant and make him conquer the
world
-by picking Venus, he made two enemies
-if he didn't pick Venus, Venus would have still helped Troy because of her son
Aeneas married to the princes of Troy Creusa
-Juno/Hero was already mad at Troy for Prince Ganymedes and because she
has her largest temple in Carthage and hears a prophecy that from the Trojans
will come a nation to destroy Carthage
-Aeneas's father is Anchises and he went lame by "strong poetry reading"
-Aeneas's child is Ascanius (Iulus) who the Julian clan traces ints lineage from
-Achilles is the son of Thetis and Pilias
-the most beautiful women in the world was Helen who was married to
Menelaus the King of Sparta
-Agamemnon the King of Mycenae and is married to Klytemnestra
-Helen, Klytemnestra, Castor, and Pollux were children of Leda
-Leda liked swans and she laid eggs that each and chidren
-Castor and Pollix (also a constellation in the sky)
-Helen was Jupiter's daughter
-Klytemenstra was human
-Leda was so faithful to her husband that she would never be with anyone else
-Zeus appears to her as a swan and "read poetry"
-has two eggs that hold 2 twins each
-a thousand city states
-city-state that held power was Argos
-son is Agamemnon who is the brother of Menelaus
-Helen is so beautiful that everyone wants her
-must sign a contract in blood saying that she goes with whoever she wants
and if anyone every tries to steal her away, and you must provide a ship with
soldiers to provide a ship with sailors
-Helen takes Menelaus and they are happy until Paris comes and ruins
everything
-Cupid shoots Paris and Helen with arrows and they fall irrevocably in love
-they leave together
-Menelaus tells Agamemnon and he gathers the 1000 chieftains and ships go to
Troy and fight for 10 years
-the walls were built by Poseidon and no one could get in
-Thetis goes to Oracle of Delphi and she tells Thetis that Achilles could have a
short, exciting life or a long, boring life
-if she can take him into the River Styx and dip him in it, he will become
invincible
-his heel isn't dipped
-Priam comes to Achilles and begs for the body of Hector back
-Achilles feels sympathy for Priam and gives the body back
-soldiers get Odysseus and he tries to be crazy by plowing erratically, but they
throw Telemachus in front of the plow and Odysseus stops showing that he is
not crazy
-realize Odysseus is faking and leaves with the men
-sends Odysseus to Phthia to find Achilles
-Thetis dresses Achilles as a girl
-brings a box to Achilla that is filled with girl crap and a sword
-Achilla goes for the sword