The Iliad and the Trojan War Miss Michel English I The Iliad

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The Iliad and the Trojan War

• Miss Michel
• English I

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The Iliad
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• The Iliad starts nine years into the Trojan War
• The Trojan War took place in Troy which is in the
  northwest corner of what we now call the Republic
  of Turkey
• Many things had to happen to get this big war
  under way

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The Start of it All

• Three generations of misery and bloodshed
  started because a wedding planner failed to
  invite an important goddess

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Peleus and Thetis Wedding

• Peleus was a mortal man.
• Thetis was a sea nymph and the daughter of Zeus.
• Peleus had been on many adventures and had
  already been married, but things went sour 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 snake until
  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 Affair Peleus and Thetis Wedding

• With Zeus consent, all the famous mortals, gods,
  and goddess attended
• Eris, the goddess of strife was not invited
• Eris was insulted and snuck into the wedding
  reception

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A Golden Apple
To the fairest
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• Eris tossed a golden apple onto the dance floor.
• On the apple were the words, To the fairest.
• The golden apple was a serious party killer.
  Who was the most beautiful?

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Who is the fairest of them all?

• The competition was between
• Athena Zeus daughter and a real daddys girl
• Hera Zeus wife and Queen of the Gods
• Aphrodite The Goddess of Love
• They asked Zeus, as the King of the Gods, to
  award the prize, but he was no fool

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The Judgment of Paris
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• 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 him victory in war
• Hera offered him power over nations
• Aphrodite offered him the most beautiful woman in
  the world
• What would you choose?

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Helen of Troy

• Paris accepted Aphrodites offer
• He then learned that the most beautiful girl in
  the world was ALREADY MARRIED
• She was Helen, daughter of Leda and Zeus
• She was married to Menelaus, king of Sparta

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The Kidnapping of Helen

• Paris already had a wife named Oenone who warned
  him not to go through with the kidnapping
• He didnt listen
• He sailed off to Sparta to be guest at the palace
  of Menelaus

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The Kidnapping of Helen

• Troy was already doomed before this whole
  incident
• Zeus was the Protector of Hospitality
• Kidnapping your hosts wife isnt exactly
  hospitable
• If Troy wasnt in trouble before, they certainly
  were now!

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Troy in Trouble

• When Menelaus discovered that his wife was
  kidnapped, he ran to his big brother Agamemnon
  who agreed to get help wage war to get Helen back
• Helen is known as the face that launched a
  thousand ships

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Clever Odysseus!

• Odysseus tried to get out of joining Agamemnon
  and Menelaus in their fight for Helen by
  pretending to be crazy.
• Thetis (whose wedding started all this) tried to
  get her son Achilles out of fighting, too.

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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

• Agamemnon finally got his army together, but they
  couldnt set sail against strong winds on the
  Aegean Sea.
• The prophet Calchas told him that the winds were
  from Artemis, and to appease Artemis, Agamemnon
  would have to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia

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

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Now the War Can Begin!
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Images Used

• Map of Turkey http//wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/t
  ime-zone/europe/turkey/map.htm 14 June 2007
• Peleus and Thetis http//faculty-staff.ou.edu/M/
  Erika.D.Mitchell-Deluca-1/PeleusandThetis.html
  14 June 2007
• Phoenix Art Museum (Wedding of Peleus and
  Thetis, Joachim Wtewael, 1602) http//www.phxart.o
  rg/pastexhibitions/copper.asp
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• Dead White Males http//deadwhitemales.net/?p53
  14 June 2007
• Fruit in Mythology http//www.mythencyclopedia.
  com/Fi-Go/Fruit-in-Mythology.html 14 June 2007
• Paris, Greek Mythology Link http//homepage.mac.
  com/cparada/GML/000Images/pim/parisjudgement1125.J
  PG 14 June 2007
• Trojan War http//www.crystalinks.com/trojanwar.
  html 14 June 2007
• Helen information (Helen of Troy by Evelyn De
  Morgan) http//www.search.com/reference/Helen
  14 June 2007
• Helen of Troy http//www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Myth
  ology/Helen.html 14 June 2007
• Troy http//www.waltm.net/troy.htm 14 June
  2007
• Book 4 http//library.thinkquest.org/04oct/0001
  8/Cosmic20Odyssey/synopsis/book4.html 14 June
  2007
• The Penelope Tradition http//mkatz.web.wesleyan
  .edu/Penelope/stamnos.jpg 14 June 2007
• Themes from the Iliad and Ovid Metamorphosis
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  es20hiding.jpg
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• The Green Flower Gang The University of
  Warwick http//blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jackcole/
  14 June 2007
• Discovery Channel (Photo by Hulton
  Archive/Getty Images) http//dsc.discovery.com/ne
  ws/2006/08/28/homer_his_zoom0.html?categoryhuman
  guid20060828100030 14 June 2007