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Originally Posted by BaldyBoy25
Is this part in the book, as ive just started reading it again and dont remember reading that part!
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Which part? Which book. I'm so confused (and that's not your fault).
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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
I owe it "all" to a wide variety of sources, but I owe my initial interest to the card catalog of the Lane Public Library.  . |
I meant my interest, of course, not my whole knowledge, though Hamilton is the best place to start. She was a foremost translator and scholar, and her book won her an honorary citizenship to Athens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton
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Originally Posted by JazzJR
Wasn't she bathing him in the underword river Styx?  |
Ayup. Thetis was also indirectly responsible for the war itself, since she was a lesser goddess and when she married Peleus invitations were sent to all the gods except Eris (Discord, which should make the reason obviious). Eris showed up anyway with the golden apple with "For The Fairest" inscribed on it, which caused the fight between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, which led to them asking Paris to judge, which led to Paris judging not on beauty but on bribes, and Aphrodite's bribe was Helen.
Oh, one other thing about
Troy that made me grind my teeth, though it's a small thing. At one point in the movie Priam says "These walls have stood for a thousand years." I had to clench my teeth to keep from shouting "Except when you were a teenager and helped your father rebuild them after Heracles tore them down with his bare hands!"