The Trojan War: Part One Road To War Fall 2014. Epic Poems The Cantos, Ezra Pound Faust, Goethe Beowolf Metamorphoses, Ovid Aeneid, Virgil Mahabharata,

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The Trojan War: Part One Road To War Fall 2014

Epic Poems The Cantos, Ezra Pound Faust, Goethe Beowolf Metamorphoses, Ovid Aeneid, Virgil Mahabharata, Vyasa Gilgamesh Ramayana, Valmiki

Works attributed to Homer Batrachomyomachia Iliad Odyssey Homeric Hymns Little Iliad Nostoi (“Returns”)

Epic Cycle (Homer?) Cypria (prequel), Stasinus Iliad, Homer Aethiopis, Arctinus Little Iliad, Lesches Iliu persis (“Sack of Ilium”), Arctiunus Nostoi (“Returns”), Agias or Eumelus Odyssey, Homer Telegony, Eugammon

Babies at the feet of Leda

The Judgment of Paris (1530)

The Judgment of Paris (1639)

Judgment of Paris (1720)

Iphigenia

Briseis leaving Achilles

Death of Hector

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