The Trojan War and Homer's Iliad (Ancient History)
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HomerEpic Poet (c. 700 B.C.)
Homer?
The Iliad The OdysseyAn epic about the Trojan War
An epic poem about Odysseus’ long voyage home from Troy
Oral traditions from the Mycenaean period,
finally written down (hundreds of years later)
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A WEDDINGAll of the gods were invited to the wedding of Achilles’ parents, Thetis and Peleus…
EXCEPT FOR ONE.
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Eris
Image Credit: http://istarwyn.deviantart.com/art/ERIS-21802466
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καλλίστῃ
Eris
Photo Credit: http://www.nationalgeographic.nl/fotografie/foto/broken-rope
Goddess of Discord
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The Judgment of Paris, Peter Paul Rubens, ca 1636 (National Gallery, London)
The Judgment of Paris
HeraAphrodite
AthenaParis
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Helen of Troy“The face that launched a
thousand ships”
Helen of Troy by Evelyn de Morgan (1898, London)
X 1000
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The Trojan War
AchaeansAgamemnon
King of MycenaeMenelaus
King of SpartaAgamemnon’s Brother
Achilles Odysseus
TrojansPriam
King of TroyHector Paris
HelenQueen of SpartaPrincess of Troy
SUITOR
NEED TO KNOW
(13th c. BC?)
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Achilles
“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, the accursed rage that brought great suffering to the Achaeans.”
-- Opening lines of The Iliad
The Protagonist of the Iliad
Brad Pitt as Achilles
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Post-Homeric legends portrayed Achilles as invincible, except for his heel.
Thetis dips baby Achilles into the River Styx
The Legend of Achilles
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Achilles Tendon
“Achilles Heel”A Person’s Weakness
Picture Credit:Oxford Medicine
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Achilles vs. Hector
Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector's lifeless body in front of the Gates of Troy (from a panoramic fresco on the upper level of the main hall of the Achilleion).
The Climactic Confrontation of the Iliad
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Hades
Ancient Greeks believed that the dead went to the Hades, the underworld named for the Lord of the Dead.
Hades, pictured with Cerberus
Lord of the Underworld
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Charon’s Obol
The ancient Greeks placed a coin in the mouth of the deceased to pay the boatman for passage across the river Styx to Hades.
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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Charon and Psyche (1883)
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Respect for the Dead
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector's Body (1868-1870)
Homer’s Iliad ends when Achilles gives Hector’s body to Priam to receive the proper funeral ceremonies.
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“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts…”
The Trojan Horse
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The Great Roman Epic
The story of the Trojan Horse appears in Virgil’s Aeneid, not in Homer’s works.
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A Historical Core ???
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19th c.Excavated Troy(?)
Heinrich Schliemann
Schliemann believed that the events in Homer’s Iliad were based on actual, historical events.
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Photo Credit: Cherryx
The Ruins of Troy?
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The Ruins of Troy?
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The Walls of Troy?
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The Digging Continues...
...and the French are taking note!