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Marriage of Peleus and Thetis

Marriage of Peleus and Thetis . Eris the goddess of discord. The golden apple. Peter Paul Rubens, ' The Judgement of Paris ', about 1600. London, The National Gallery. Judgement of Paris . Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia Athena offered wisdom and skill in war

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Marriage of Peleus and Thetis

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  1. Marriage of Peleus and Thetis

  2. Eris the goddess of discord

  3. The golden apple

  4. Peter Paul Rubens, 'The Judgement of Paris', about 1600. London, The National Gallery

  5. Judgement of Paris

  6. Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia Athena offered wisdom and skill in war Aphrodite offered the love of the world's most beautiful woman. This was Helen of Sparta, wife of the Greek king Menelaus. Paris accepted Aphrodite's gift and awarded the apple to her, receiving Helen as well as the enmity of the Greeks and especially of Hera.

  7. Paris abducting Helen

  8. Greek Bireme ca. 1250 B.C.

  9. Odysseus and Achilles Odysseus had by this time married Penelope and fathered a son, Telemachus. In order to avoid the war, he feigned madness and sowed his fields with salt. Palamedes outwitted him by placing his infant son in front of the plough's path, and Odysseus turned aside, unwilling to kill his son, so revealing his sanity and forcing him to join the war.[33][43]

  10. At Scyros, Achilles had an affair with the king's daughter Deidamea, resulting in a child, Neoptolemus. Achilles' mother disguised him as a woman so that he would not have to go to war, but, according to one story, they blew a horn, and Achilles revealed himself by seizing a spear to fight intruders, rather than fleeing. According to another story, they disguised themselves as merchants bearing trinkets and weaponry, and Achilles was marked out from the other women by admiring the wrong goods.

  11. The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

  12. Sacrifice of Iphigenia

  13. Chryses attempting to ransom his daughter Chryseis from Agamemnon, Apulian red-figure crater by the Athens 1714 Painter, ca. 360 BC–350 BC, Louvre

  14. Mission to Achilles

  15. Briseis taken from Achilles

  16. Agamemnon taking Briseis

  17. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.

  18. The significance of Agamemnon's actions lies not in the fact that he kidnapped Chryseis - such abductions were commonplace in the Greek world - but in the fact that he refused to release her upon her father's request. [1].

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