REVENGE

REVENGE

TROJAN WAR BEGINS BECAUSE MENELAUS AGAMEMNON WANT REVENGE FOR PARIS STEALING MENELAUS' WIFE
ACHILLES "HECTOR, SURELY YOU THUGHT AS YOU KILLED PATROCLUS YOU WOULD BE SAFE SINCE I WAS FAR AWAY ...OH FOOL, FOR AN AVENGER WAS LEFT ...AND IT WAS I" ILIAD 22.331-34
ILIAD PATROCLUS' DEATH AT THE HANDS OF HECTOR = ACHILLIES AVENGES PARTOCLUS BY KILLING HECTOR
1. "DEEPLY VEXED ACHILLES" ILIAD BOOK 22.14
ODYSSEY TELEMACHOS AND ODYSSEUS TAKE REVENGE ON THE SUITORS FOR ABUSING XENIA
1. SUITORS FAMILIES TRY TO AVENGE THEIR DEATHS IN RETURN
2. OD BOOK 22 63-4 ODYSSEUS " I WOULD NOT STAY MY HANDS FROM THE SLAUGHTER UNTIL I HAD TAKEN REVENGE FOR THE SUITORS TRANSGRESSION"
ODYSSEUS' BLINDING OF POLYPHEMUS THE CYCLOPS IS AVENGED BY POSIEDON WHO TRIES TO PREVENT ODYSSEUS FROM RETURNING HOME.
ODYSSEY STORY OF AGAMEMNON AIGISTHOS SEDUCES AGAMENONS WIFE WHILIST HE IS FIGHTING AT TROY. AIGISTHOS MURDERS AGAMEMNON ON HIS RETURN = AGAMEMNONS SON ORESTES, MURDERS AIGISTHOS TO AVENGE HIS FATHERS DEATH
1. USED TO WARN TELEMACHOS NOT TO STAY TOO LONG AWAY FROM HOME - DANGER OF SUITORS. TELEMACHOS MUST AVENGE THEM
2. TELEMACHOS "IF ONLY THE GODS WOULD GIVE ME SUCH STRENGTH AS HE HAS TO TAKE REVENGE ON THE SUITORS FOR THEIR OVERBEARING OPPRESSION" OD3.205-6
ACHILLES CALLS HIS GODESS MOTHER THETIS TO ENLIST THE HELP OF ZEUS "PUT STRENGTH INTO THE TROJANS UNTIL THE ACHAIANS GIVE MY SON HIS RIGHTS" ILIAD 1.509-10 - GREEKS BEGIN TO LOSE TROJAN WAR
1. ILIAD BOOK 1 AGAMEMNON REFUSES TO RETURN CHRYSES' DAUGHTER - LATER TAKES ACHILLES PRIZE WOMAN
  1. CHRYSES REVENGE ON AGAMEMNON = INVOKES APOLLO "THE ARCHER SENDS GRIEFS AGAINS US...THE SHAMEFUL PLAGUE...UNTIL WE GIVE THE GIRL BACK" ILIAD 1.96-8

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