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The Illiad 77265004 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "The face that launched a thousand ships" (Marlowe; Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Euripides' play Orestes 352, Andromache 106
    - - Parentage
        
        She is brought up as the daughter of Tyndareus (king of sparta) and Leda (his wife). -Haynes p.60
        
        Zeus' daughter: "Most sources, at least from Homer onwards, call her the daughter of Zeus." -Haynes p.60
        "Euripides' play Helen explains that Zeus took the form of a swan fleeing from an eagle, and used this deceit to get into Leda's bed." Haynes p.60
        
        "Swan Upon Leda" -Hozier:
        "A husband waits outside/ A crying child pushes a child into the night/ She was told he would come this time/ Without leaving so much as a feather behind/To enact at last the perfect plan"
        
        "In the lost epic poem, the Cypria...Helen was the daughter of Zeus and the goddess Nemesis. Nemesis changed into a goose to escape the prospect of imminent, unwanted sex with Zeus. In response to this, Zeus became a swan and had sex with her anyway. Nemesis ditched the egg containing the embryonic Helen and a shepherd found it and gave it to Leda, who kept it in a box until it hatched." Haynes, p.61
    - - Sister: Clyemnestra
      - Brothers: Castor and Polydeuces
        
        "Exact parentage is contested...They are either both sons of Tyndareus, both sons of Zeus, or one of the a son of Zeus (Polydeuces, known later as Pollux). They're often referred to in Greek textx as the Dioscouri, sons of Zeus." Haynes p.61
    - - After the death of his wife, Theseus decides, "he would like to make Helen his wife." Haynes p.62.
        He kidnapped Helen when she was seven years old and placed her in the 'care' of a friend in Athens.
        This led to the first war fought over Helen, where her brothers waged war on Athens to get her back. While they were victorious, some accounts Helen had already given birth to Theseus' first child by the time she was saved. Haynes p.62-63
    - - Because she had so many suitors, Tyndareus made all the suitors pledge an oath that even if they did not marry her, they would fight for her. Haynes p.64
        
        Menelaus
        
        Menelaus was chosen, either by her father, or by Helen, as her husband
  - - - In some versions Helen is abducted by Paris, in others, she elopes with him (this is the version traditionally presented in the Illiad) Haynes p.65
    - - Priam and Hecabe, king and queen of Troy
- - - - "describes the overwhelming anger of a Greek warrior, Achilles, and its catastrophic consequences" Wilson p.xi
    - - "Tells how a brave Trojan warrior, Hector, leaves his city and family to attack the Greek invaders- and returns home only after death." Wilson p.xi
    - - "Book 1-4 trace the failure of diplomatic solutions. Books 5-9 show the rise of Hector...Books 10-11 evoke two Greek missions into hostile spaces, one unsuccessful and one successful...Books 11-15 focus on what is often dubbed the Great Battle...in book 16, Patroclus dies. Books 17-22 describe the return of Achilles to the battlefield. Books 23 and 24 are another pair with...scenes of lament." Wilson p.xxv
- - - - "Oral poets have traditional ways of describing everything and everyone." Wilson p.xxi (traditional epithets)
        
        "Elite female characters always have white arms, trailing dresses, neat sashes, and well-braided hair." Wilson p.xxi
        These mark their status, not individual characteristics
  - - - "Catalogs also serve to evoke the vast scale of the war and the world, and to gesture towards all the many people and events that are omitted from the narrative...give a human singer something like ten tongues: they enable a single poem to encompass the whole world and remember all the numberless dead." Wilson p.xxii