Aim: What morals can we learn from the Iliad? Do Now: Who was Paris? What was his reward for choosing Venus and why was this a problem?
Who remembers Paris?
Angry King Menelaus of Sparta Paris, the Trojan shepherd stole Helen, his wife
Agamemnon- Menelaeus’s brother He brought an army to Troy to bring Helen back The Trojans didn’t take this too well…
…nine years later The Greeks and the Trojans are still fighting
More kidnapping… King Agamemnon had taken a Greek priest’s daughter captive When Agamemnon refuses to give her back, the priest prays to Apollo to send a plague to all of the Greeks
Apollo obliges
Nine days of plague The Greeks beg Agamemnon to give the girl back He agrees on one condition…
He tells Achilles, the Greeks’ greatest warrior
Achilles agrees to give him Briseus But how do you think this made Achilles feel?
He refuses to fight anymore
Achilles is not just any warrior He’s the son of Thetis and Pelius
Thetis pulls some strings with Jupiter
The Trojans start making counterattacks Led by their greatest warrior, Hector Eventually the Trojans pin the Greeks against the beach and threaten to burn their ships
Besties! Achilles’ best friend Patroklus goes into battle in Achilles’ place, wearing his armor
The Trojans are frightened! They are deceived by Patroklus’s armor and believe that he is actually the great Achilles
One Trojan hero wasn’t afraid Hector killed Patroklus (with a little help from Apollo) He then took Patroklus’s armor as his prize
When Achilles finds out about Patroklus How do you think he feels?
He wants revenge! Back to mom for help! Thetis asks Vulcan to make him a suit of armor that is very powerful
One Trojan hero challenges Achilles in a man-to-man combat Aeneas- son of Venus Achilles is only protected from Aeneas’s spear by his divine armor
Achilles is just about to win the battle when who should show up but…
Neptune saves Aeneas! He warns him to stop fighting with Achilles He says that Aeneas will one day be stronger and greater than any of his enemies…we’ll return to this later
Eventually, Achilles meets his nemesis He kills Hector and avenges his friend’s death
But Achilles still doesn’t feel satisfied The gods have to interfere in order to get Achilles to give Hector’s body back to his father, King Priam
In the end Achilles and Priam dine together and empathize with each other’s griefs Achilles grants the Trojans a few days of peace in order to give Hector a proper funeral