The Trojan War and Aeneas Heroes, gods, beautiful women, battles, love, betrayal, death, destruction:
I can: ◦ Identify the event of the Trojan War ◦ Recognize the major characters of the Trojan War ◦ Locate Troy on a map ◦ Retell the events of the Trojan War ◦ Retell the quest of Aeneas to found the Roman race
1. What were the two groups fighting in the Trojan War? 2. Have you read the Iliad, Odyssey, or Aeneid? 3. Who was the face that launched a thousand ships? 4. Who led each side? 5. Who were the best warriors on each side? 6. Who won the war? 7. What is Achilles weakness? 8. Where is Troy? 9. Who is Aeneas? 10. Why did Odysseus/Ulysses wander 20 years?
Greek: ◦ Epic Poems Iliad (covers last year of the ten year war), Odyssey ( Odysseus/Ulysses 20 year trip home) Both written by Homer ◦ Numerous Plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus Roman: ◦ Epic Poem The Aeneid similar to Iliad and Odyssey but story of a Trojan warrior who escapes from Troy to build a new civilization from the remnants of Troy and which will become the Romans
Source as one of Western Cultures first great epics of numerous allusions, themes, archetypes ◦ Still affecting modern literature and film ◦ Helen of Troy ◦ Aeneid national epic of Rome, single most important Latin book ◦ Odyssey, Iliad required reading ◦ Odyssey, face that launched a thousand ships, the wine dark sea, beware of Greeks bearing gifts, Achilles heel/tendon, Trojan Horse, Cassandra…
Peleus*Thetis*Jupiter *Eris/Discordia*Juno *Minerva *Venus*Mercury ◦ * deity HelenMenelaus ClytemnestraAgamemnon
Patroclus Achilles Ulysses/Odysseus Penelope *DianaIphigenia Diomedes BriseisChryseis Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus Sinon
Priam Hecuba Paris/Alexander Oenone Cassandra HectorAndromacheAstyanax Anchises *Venus Aeneas Laocoon
TroyHellespontBlack Sea Mt. IdaAulisSparta MycenaeScaean GatePalladium TenedosElysian Fields
Role of Troy in Aegean World: trade, horses Birth of Paris and Prophecy Wedding of Peleus and Thetis Judgment of Paris “Abduction of Helen” Raising an army Recruitment Issues: Ulysses, Achilles,
Journey to Troy: the troops, Aulis, the sacrifice The Siege 10 years ◦ The Iliad only the last year; really about the conflict between Agamenon and Achilles, then Achilles and Hector ◦ The girl issue: Apollo. Chryseis, Agamemnon, Achilles, Briseis
Achilles the brat Battlefield incidents ◦ Menelaus and Paris ◦ Diomedes, Athena, Aeneas, Venus, ◦ Hector, Andromache, Astyanax Achilles still a brat character of Ulyssess
Patroclus, the armor old and new Death of Hector, Death of Achilles; Apollo and Paris Ulysses, Minerva, the horse, Laocoon, Sinon Fall of Troy, Neoptolemus
The Postwar: Helen and Menelaus, Andromache and Neoptolemus and Helenus, Agamemnon and Cassandra meet Clytemnestra, Neoptolemus and Orestes and Hermione, Voyages of Ulysses and Aeneas
Venus Vergil The Aeneid TrojansGreeks *Troy Paris*Thrace Anchises Ascanius*Crete Aeneas CreusaHarpies/*Strophades JunoCyclopes Polyphemus *Carthage Punic War*Sicily DidoPalinurusAeolus Mercury*Cumae/Sibyl Neptune AnnaProsperpinaHector *Mt. Vesuvius/Lake Avernus
*LatiumEvanderEuryalus LaviniumLatinusEtruscans Pallas*Alba LongaLavinia MezentiusLausus*Tiber TurnusVulcanCamilla Julius CaesarIulusMisus Juturna