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by Cassandra Page
from Farrar, Strauss, Giroux 1984
paperback edition, tr. Jan van Heurck
Page #
Key word
video, if underlined
| Page
4 |
Agamemnon, Mycenae |
| Page
5 |
Aeneas |
| Pages
6-8 |
Penthesilea |
| Page
8 |
Clytaemnestra |
| Page
9 |
Clytaemnestra, queen |
| Page
9 |
Agamemnon, king |
| Page
10 |
Agamemnon, the weak |
| Page
11 |
Panthous |
| Page
15 |
Cassandra |
| Page
15 |
Apollo Lykeios |
| Page
16 |
prophecy |
| Page
21 |
images |
| Page
23 |
Apollo and Cassandra |
| Pages
25-26 |
Polyxena |
| Page
31 |
Anchises |
| Page
32 |
Hektor |
| Page
35 |
Calchas |
| Page
44 |
Paris |
| Page
45 |
Paris, boyhood |
| Pages
50-51 |
Menelaus, visitor |
| Page
53 |
Iphigeneia, sacrifice of |
| Page
54 |
Menelaus, cuckold |
| Page
57 |
Hektor |
| Page
57 |
Achilles the brute |
| Page
59 |
Paris, killer of Achilles |
| Page
61 |
Cassandra, prophetess |
| Page
64 |
Helen's abduction |
| Page
65 |
Helen and war |
| Pages
66-67 |
Paris's return to Troy |
| Page 68 |
Paris and Egypt |
| Page
71 |
Troilus |
| Page
73 |
Achilles, strangler |
| Page
88 |
Aeneas |
| Page
89 |
Scaean Gate |
| Pages
89-90 |
Helenus |
| Page
90 |
Hektor, chief hero |
| Page
91-93 |
Anchises and Aeneas |
| Page
94 |
Cassandra |
| Page
95 |
Polyxena and Achilles |
| Page
100 |
Paris |
| Page
100 |
Priam |
| Page
103 |
Agamemnon, Aulis |
| Page
109 |
Polyxena and Achilles |
| Page
110 |
Hektor v. Ajax Greater |
| Page
113 |
Polyxena for Helen |
| Pages
115-117 |
Penthesilea |
| Page
120 |
Penthesilea v. Achilles |
| Page
125 |
images |
| Page
126 |
Achilles death plot |
| Page
127 |
Paris, slayer of Achilles |
| Page
135 |
Priam's death |
| Page
138 |
Aeneas, destiny |
Menu 2 (under construction)
Questions (FAQs)
| Is there a basis in "tradition" or sources
for "Achilles the Brute"? |
| Is there evidence for Wolf's "rational" explanation
for the causes of the Trojan War in the "tradition"? |
| Why are Briseis and Chryseis mixed up by Wolf? |
| Why is Polyxena so important to Wolf? |
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