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BACKGROUND MYTHS TO THE ODYSSEY
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Aims:
To provide context to myths in the Odyssey.
Objectives:
1. Predict the outcomes of origin myths.
2. Analyse themes within the myths.
3. Take notes on important myths.
4. Recreate aspects of important myths.
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MYTH OR LEGEND?
•Myth = A story used to explain the world around
us normally involving the divine.
•Legend = A popular story widely believed to have
varying elements of truth.
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WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS
•Prophecy – Son will surpass the father.
•Thetis – Shape shifting goddess.
•Wedding – Eris (discord) was not invited.
•Golden Apple – ‘For the fairest’.
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TYNDAREUS AND HELEN
•Tyndareus – Helen’s father and an Argonaut
•Afraid – Worried about angering suitors.
•Odysseus – suggested the suitors swear to
support the winner.
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THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS
•Zeus – didn’t want to choose.
•Paris – was a known as a fair judge.
•3 goddesses – tried to bribe Paris.
•Losers – hate Paris and Troy.
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THE GREEKS GATHER AN EXPEDITON
•The suitors oath – The heroes assemble.
•Achilles – disguised as a woman.
•Odysseus – pretended to be mad.
•Cinyras – 49 clay ships.
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GREEKS FAIL TO ENTER TROY
•Treasure – The Greeks plunder the area.
•Trojan allies – The Greeks cut off Troy.
•The quarrel – Agamemnon and Achilles fall out
over the division of spoils.
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ANGER OF ACHILLES
•Patroklos – killed by Hector.
•Rage – Achilles slaughters Trojans without
mercy.
•Societal Norms- Achilles desecrates bodies and
behaves like a savage force of nature.
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DEATH OF ACHILLES
•Paris – killed him with a poisoned arrow.
•Achilles Heel – hit in the heel.
•Inglorious death / glorious life.
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PHILOCTETES AND NEOPTOLEMUS
•Philoctetes – owned Hercules bow.
•Wounded foot – forced to stay on Lemnos.
•Neoptolemus - brought him back to Troy.
•Prophecy – The bow is needed to ensure the fall
of Troy.
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THE WOODEN HORSE
•Odysseus – Came up with the idea.
•Fate – Cassandra and Laocoon saw through it.
•Fate – The walls of Troy built by Poseidon and
could never be stormed.
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THE DEATH OF AGAMEMNON
•Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
•Iphegenia – Murdered for the wind.
•Cassandra – warnings ignored.
•Orestes – vengeance and the end of the family
curse.
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