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The Iliad and the Trojan War

Miss Michel

English I


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The Iliad

The Iliad starts nine years into the Trojan War

The Trojan War took place in Troy which is in thenorthwest corner of what we now call the Republicof Turkey

Many things had to happen to get this big warunder way

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The Start of it All

Threegenerations ofmisery andbloodshedstartedbecause aweddingplanner failed

to invite animportantgoddess


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Peleus and Thetis Wedding

Peleus was a mortal man.

Thetis was a sea nymph and the daughterof Zeus.

Peleus had been on many adventures andhad already been married, but things wentsour when he accidentally killed his father-in-law.

He saw Thetis, fell in love with her, and

tried to kidnap her.She managed to fight him off with a snakeuntil he eventually won her over.


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It is not without some gods assistance that you conquer(Thetis to Peleus in Ovids Metamorphosis)


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The Big

AffairPeleus and

Thetis

Wedding

With Zeus consent, all the famous

mortals, gods, and goddess attendedEris, the goddess of strife was not invited

Eris was insulted and snuck into the

wedding reception


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A Golden Apple

Eris tossed a golden apple onto thedance floor.

On the apple were the words, To thefairest.

The golden apple was a serious partykiller. Who was the most beautiful?

To the fairest

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Who is the fairest of them all?

The competition was between:

AthenaZeus daughter and a realdaddys girl

HeraZeus wife and Queen of theGods

AphroditeThe Goddess of Love

They asked Zeus, as the King of theGods, to award the prize, but he wasno fool


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The Judgment of Paris

Zeus gave the task to Paris, son of Priam, the King

of Troy.

Zeus knew that Troy was fated to be destroyed

because of an old run-in with Apollo and

Poseidon.

Paris was the torch to set the whole city on fire.

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Paris Ill-fated Choice

Athena offered himvictory in war

Hera offered him

power over nations

Aphrodite offered

him the most

beautiful woman in

the world

What would you

choose?homepage.mac.com


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Helen of Troy

Paris acceptedAphrodites offer

He then learned thatthe most beautiful girl

in the world wasALREADY MARRIED

She was Helen,daughter of Leda and

ZeusShe was married toMenelaus, king ofSparta

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The Kidnapping of Helen

Paris already had awife namedOenone whowarned him not togo through with thekidnapping

He didnt listen

He sailed off toSparta to be guestat the palace ofMenelaus

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The Kidnapping of Helen

Troy was alreadydoomed before this

whole incident

Zeus was the

Protector ofHospitality

Kidnapping your hosts

wife isnt exactly

hospitable

If Troy wasnt in

trouble before, they

certainly were now!

In Sparta, Paris either

forcefully carried Helen

away from Troy or heseduced her and she left

with him on her own

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Troy in Trouble

When Menelaus

discovered that his wife

was kidnapped, he ran to

his big brotherAgamemnon who agreed

to get help wage war to get

Helen back

Helen is known as theface that launched a

thousand shipslibrary.thinkquest.org


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Clever Odysseus!Odysseus tried to get out of joining

Agamemnon and Menelaus in their fight forHelen by pretending to be crazy.

Thetis (whose wedding started all this) triedto get her son Achilles out of fighting, too.

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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Agamemnon sent a message to his wife, Clytemnestra, sayingthat he had arranged for Iphigenia to marry Achilles in Aulis,but when she arrived on her wedding day, her father sacrificedher on the altar like an animal.

Agamemnon finally got his

army together, but theycouldnt set sail againststrong winds on the

Aegean Sea.

The prophet Calchas toldhim that the winds were

from Artemis, and toappease Artemis,

Agamemnon would have tosacrifice his daughterIphigenia

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Now the War Can Begin!


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Images Used:

Map of Turkey http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/turkey/map.htm 14 June 2007

Peleus and Thetis http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/M/Erika.D.Mitchell-Deluca-1/PeleusandThetis.html 14June 2007

Phoenix Art Museum (Wedding of Peleus and Thetis,Joachim Wtewael, 1602)http://www.phxart.org/pastexhibitions/copper.asp

14 June 2007

Dead White Males http://deadwhitemales.net/?p=53 14 June 2007

Fruit in Mythology http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Fi-Go/Fruit-in-Mythology.html 14 June 2007

Paris, Greek Mythology Linkhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Images/pim/parisjudgement1125.JPG 14 June 2007

Trojan War http://www.crystalinks.com/trojanwar.html 14 June 2007Helen information (Helen of Troy by Evelyn De Morgan) http://www.search.com/reference/Helen 14June 2007

Helen of Troy http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Helen.html 14 June 2007

Troy http://www.waltm.net/troy.htm 14 June 2007

Book 4 http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00018/Cosmic%20Odyssey/synopsis/book4.html 14 June2007

The Penelope Tradition http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/Penelope/stamnos.jpg 14 June 2007

Themes from the Iliad and Ovid Metamorphosis

http://users.adelphia.net/~bnbhelm/project2/Achilles%20hiding.jpg14 June 2007

The Green Flower Gang The University of Warwick http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jackcole/ 14 June2007

Discovery Channel (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/28/homer_his_zoom0.html?category=human&guid=20060828100030 14 June 2007
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