1. THE ILIAD: GODS AND GODDESSES MAN, MYTH, MEANING THE TROJAN WAR

2. Map of Greece/Troy In The Bronze Age

3. GOD/GODDESSES ON THE GREEK SIDE PARTHENON TEMPLE OF ATHENA NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

4. ATHENA GODDESS OF WAR AND WISDOM HER TEMPLE TODAY ATHENS, GREECE

5. ATHENA, THE GODDESS BORN FROM THE HEAD OF ZEUS SHE IS THE CONSUMMATE WARRIORESS

6. HERA WIFE AND SISTER OF ZEUS FANATICAL SHE WILL GO TO ANY LENGTHS INCLUDING THE DECEPTION OF HER HUSBAND FOR THE DEFEAT OF TROY

7. HERMES, AMBASSADOR OF THE GODS CONDUCTOR OF DEAD SOULS TO HADES HE DOES LITTLE TO AID THE GREEKS HE ESCORTS PRIAM ON HIS VISIT TO ACHILLES IN BOOK 24

8. HERMES WITH CUPID AND UNKNOWN WOMAN

9. TEMPLE OF POSEIDON YOUNGER BROTHER OF ZEUS GOD OF THE SEA

10. POSEIDON HE IS RESENTFUL OF ZEUS’ CLAIM TO AUTHORITY OVER HIM

11. THETIS IMPLORING ZEUS MOTHER OF ACHILLES A SEA NYMPH SHE SUPPORTS HER SON IN HIS QUARREL WITH AGAMEMNON SHE IS NOT OTHERWISE INVOLVED IN THE WAR

12. ZEUS KING OF THE GODS HIS TEMPLE

13. THE SKY GOD HIMSELF THE ULTIMATE ANTHROPOMORPHIC CONCEPTION OF GOD IN THE SKY ORIGINATING IN THE HUMAN MIND

14. GOD/GODDESSES ON THE TROJAN SIDE TROY BURNING

15. THE TROJAN HORSE THE END OF THE TROJANS A PLOY CRAFTED BY ODYSSEUS

16. APHRODITE GODDESS OF LOVE DAUGHTER OF ZEUS MOTHER OF AENEAS, PATRON OF PARIS HER LOVE IS ARES, GOD OF WAR

17. APOLLO SON OF ZEUS GOD OF LIGHT, PROPHECY, POETRY, MUSIC. HE FIGHTS ON THE TROJAN SIDE

18. APOLLO RAINING DOWN ARROWS ON THE GREEKS HIS PRIEST, CHRYSES, BRINGS RANSOM TO AGAMEMNON IN THE HOPE THAT HE WILL RELEASE HIS DAUGHTER, CHRYSEIS AGAMEMNON REFUSES DESTRUCTION IS BROUGHT ON THE GREEKS

19. ARES GOD OF WAR SON OF ZEUS AND HERA, LOVER OF APHRODITE. HE FIGHTS ON THE TROJAN SIDE, DESPITE AN EARLIER PROMISE TO HERA AND ATHENA THAT HE WOULD SUPPORT THE GREEKS

20. ARTEMIS ANCIENT TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS

21. SHE FIGHTS WITH LITTLE EFFECT, ON THE TROJAN SIDE GODDESS OF THE HUNT, WILD ANIMALS, AND BIRTH.

22. Schliemann’s Trench Remains of Troy, Hellespont

23. SHIELD OF ACHILLES MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE

24. FALL OF TROY, F0UNDING OF ROME MYTHICALLY IRONIC THAT IN THE VIOLENT DESTRUCTION OF ONE GREAT CIVILIZATION, ANOTHER RISES ON ITS ASHES