2/2/09 BR- What do you think are appropriate reasons for a country to go to war with another?

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2/2/09BR- What do you think are appropriate
reasons for a country to go to war with another?

• Today The Story of the Trojan War

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Cast of Characters You should Make a chart that
explains how each of these people played a role
in the Trojan War

1. Helen
2. Paris
3. Aphrodite
4. Menelaus
5. Agamemnon
6. Hector
7. Achilles
8. Odysseus

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Chapter 5 - The Trojan War

• The story of the Trojan war is told in Homers
  epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.
• Iliad (Troy is also called Ilion) is the story of
  the fall of Troy.
• Odyssey is the story of Odysseus and his journey
  home after the war.

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Time Line

• Athena, Aphrodite, Hera have a contest as to who
  is most beautiful. Paris (of Troy) gives the
  prize of most beautiful to Aphrodite. In return,
  Aphrodite (godess of love) makes the most
  beautiful woman in the world (Helen) fall in love
• with him

Helen was Aphrodites bribe to Paris (all 3 had
offered him a bribe.) The face that launched
1,000 Ships?
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• 2. Helen is already married to Menelaus of
  Sparta. Paris visits Menelaus and while under
  Meneleaus protection he steals his wife and
  hurries back to Troy. This was a huge insult not
  only to Menelaus but to Zeus (Remember the story
  of the old man and woman from ch. 2?)

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• 3. Menelaus goes to his brother Agamemnon (who
  had recently united the Greeks in a loose sort of
  nation) to help him get back his wife and punish
  the Trojans.
• 4. Agamemnon rounds up all of the big names of
  Greece and their armies (Odysseus, Achilles, and
  others) and sails to Greece.

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• 5. The Greeks lay siege to the city of Troy for
  10 years! Due to the Trojan defenses and problems
  between the Greeks It seems that the city will
  survive.
• Untill..

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• The Trojan Horse

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• 6. Wily Odysseus comes up with an idea to get
  into the city (the Trojan Horse.) The Greeks
  build a giant horse. In the middle of the night
  they put their best soldiers inside and the rest
  of the Greeks pack up and make it look like they
  have abandoned the siege. In reality they have
  just sailed down the coast.

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Time Line

• 7. The Trojans take the horse into the city and
  throw a big party - because they had finally
  beaten the Greeks.
• That night, when everybody is asleep from the
  party, the Greeks inside jump out and attack. The
  surprise attack allows the Greeks to take the
  city.

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The city is sacked (robbed and burnt to the
ground.)
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The rest of the story..

• There is a lot more to it (Hector, Achilles,
  Paris and many other prominent characters are
  killed during the war.)
• Odysseus is the only person who makes it home. It
  takes him another 10 years to get back and he has
  many adventures (His story is told in the Odyssey.

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Assignment 45 Points - Due Thursday Make sure
you complete the cast of characters chart, and
read chapter 5.

• Then - design a 6 panel cartoon that tells the
  story of the Trojan War.