2. A. King Peleus and nymph Thetis 1. Eris (evil) is not invited 2. She crashes with a golden apple 3. Three goddesses claim it: a.Hera b.Athena c.Aphrodite 4. Zeus asked to judge: no way, Jose! 5. Sends them to Mt. Ida for Paris to judge

4. B. The Judgment of Paris 1. Prince of Troy, Priam’s son 2. Yet again, a prophecy of destruction 3. Paris lives with nymph, Oenone 4. The 3 goddesses arrive and offer bribes a. Athena: b. Hera: c. Aphrodite: 5. Paris is weak and a coward: he chooses……? Paris Has to Choose

6. C. The Capture of Helen 1. Helen is the most beautiful a. Daughter of Zeus and Leda; sister of Castor and Pollux b. So beautiful Theseus tried to kidnap her as a child c. Every prince in Greece wanted her – why?? d. Her “dad,” King Tyndareus of Sparta, comes up with a plan e. Suitors, unite! f. Menelaus is chosen 2. Paris goes to visit Sparta… a. Laws of hospitality b. Menelaus trusts Paris, but……. c. Paris runs away with Helen 3.A note on Aphrodite: she is angry with Tyndareus for forgetting (on ONE occasion) to sacrifice to her. Her curse: his daughters would be famous w****s. Where have we seen this before?? The Marriage/Kidnapping of Helen

8. A.All but two: 1. Odysseus, King of Ithaca a.doesn’t want to leave his family b. Pretends to be crazy c.Palemedes puts Odysseus’s son in the plow’s way d.Odysseus turns the plow, proving he’s sane e.It’s off to the army for him! 2. Achilles a. Mama knows he’ll die if he goes to Troy b.Thetis hides him at the court of Lycomedes, disguising him as a girl c.Odysseus is sent to find him: he’s so clever d.Weapons are for boys… e.Achilles is revealed f. It’s off to the army for him too!

10. B.1,000 ships set out for war C. Trouble at Aulis 1. Artemis is super mad 2. Must sacrifice Iphigenia 3. Agamemnon reluctantly agrees a.Fake wedding to Achilles b.Iphigenia arrives with her wedding clothes and is killed c.Clytemnestra holds a long grudge 4. Wind stops, ships sail “ ”Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” Christopher Marlowe

12. A. Royal Family of Troy 1.King: Priam a. old b. has 50 sons 2.Queen: Hecuba (not the mother of all 50 sons, just 17 or so) 3.Paris(we’ve met him; we’re not impressed) 4.Hector(now we’re impressed) a. the greatest warrior in Troy b. Priam’s noblest son c. The only prince of Troy NOT to develop the hots for Helen d. The only one to be nice to Helen when everyone is tired of a 10 year war 5.Andromache a. Hector’s wife b. Her husband is too into her to look at Helen 6.Cassandra a. Priam’s daugher, loved by Apollo, gave her the gift of prophecy b. rejected the god, who cursed her: no one would ever believe her truths

14. B. The best of the Greeks 1.Achilles a. immortal except his heel b. golden armor c. greatest Greek warrior 2.Agamemnon a. King of Mycenae b. Leader of the Greeks c.bossy, proud, unreasonable 3. Menelaus a. King of Sparta b.Helen’s husband c. Agamemnon’s brother 4. Odysseus a.King of Ithaca b. Crafty, the smartest hero 5.Ajax a. crazy strong b. fiercest warrior 6. Protesilaus a.first to land onTroy b. Why is this a big deal? c.After his death Leaders for the Greeks C. Two greatest warriors knew they would die

17. D. The Women of the Trojan War 1. Nine-year battle a.Iliad begins in the 10 th year of the war b. Literary technique known as in medias res 2. Achilles and Agamemnon butt heads over captive women: 3. Chryseis a. Agamemnon captured her b. Her dad is a priest of Apollo, and he begs her release c. Agamemnon refuses d. Divine retribution: e. Achilles calls a conference and brings in Calchas, a soothsayer f. The verdict: Chryseis must be returned g. Agamemnon’s pride is wounded; he is furious 4.Briseis a. Achilles captured her b. When forced to give up Chryseis, Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles c. Achilles is furious: he drops out of the war, stays in his tent d. Greeks begin to lose the war Woman Trouble

19. E. The gods take sides 1. Lining up for the Trojans: a. Aphrodite: Paris picked her b. Ares: always sides with his girlfriend c. Apollo: fond of Hector, angry with the Greeks over Chryseis d. Artemis: always sides with her twin e. Zeus: supposed to be neutral, but favors Troy anyway 2. On the Greek side: a. Hera: woman scorned syndrome b. Athena: same condition c. Poseidon: Greeks are a seagoing culture 3. Thetis pushes Zeus to help Troy a. Greeks can’t win without Achilles b. Zeus sends Agamemnon a lying dream, telling him to attack c. fierce battle ensues The Super Bowl of the Gods

21. F. Menelaus v. Paris 1. A clearing where the two fight 2.Honor dictates no interferenceHonor dictates no interference 3. Paris strikes, Menelaus deflects; Menelaus’ sword doesn’t wound Paris 4. Menelaus’ sword breaks for no reason 5. Menelaus attacks Paris, 6. Aphrodite intervenes, takes Paris away 7. Menelaus hunts Paris among the Trojans—they want to give him up;can’t find him 8. Agamemnon says Menelaus won, so Helen should be returned 9. Athena tricks a Trojan into breaking a truce, and the battle is on again G. Aphrodite and Ares are humiliated 1. Aeneas injured 2. Hera chases Ares away Fighting over Helen

23. H. Hector prepares for his last day 1. He knows he’s going to die 2. Goes up to the walls of Troy, where the Trojans watch the war, to see his wife and baby son, Astyanax 3. Baby is afraid of his armor and cries; Hector removes his helmet and says farewell 4. Tenderest moment in the Iliad I. Greeks lose ground 1. Hector drives the Greeks back 2. Greeks need Achilles a. Agamemnon offers to return Briseis b. Achilles remains proud and stubborn; nothing will induce him to return 3. Hera borrows Aphrodite’s girdle and “distracts” Zeus, giving Greeks a chance 4. Zeus figures it out and comes back for Troy 5. Achilles’s best friend Patroclus takes Achilles’s armor, goes into battle a. Trojans think he’s Achilles and are intimidated b. Hector kills Patroclus c. Achilles flips out The Death of Patroclus

25. J. Achilles v. Hector 1. Achilles gets new armor from Thetis—magical, that can’t be pierced 2. Hector wears the armor he took from Patroclus’s body 3. Hector waits for Achilles, sees him coming, radiant and godlike, and starts running 4. Hector can’t quite outrun Achilles, but Achilles can’t catch him either 5. Fate isn’t with Hector a. Apollo has been helping Hector, something Zeus has approved b. Athena warns Zeus to back off, as fate is against Hector c. Apollo must leave Hector’s side 6. Hector finally stops to fight, fooled by Athena, who takes the form of a brother and promises to help him fight Achilles 7. Hector suddenly finds himself alone, facing Achilles, who is helped by Athena 8. Achilles aims his spear at an opening in the throat of Hector’s armor, kills him Hector’s Last Stand

27. K. Achilles breaks the rules—big ones 1.Hector, dying, asks that his body be returned to his parents; Achilles refuses 2. Achilles ties Hector’s body (by the ankles)Achilles ties Hector’s body to his chariot & drags it around Troy 3.Most gods are massively displeased: you never, EVER violate the dead 4. Priam goes to Achilles with treasure to beg for his son’s body 5. Achilles is touched, has the body bathed & covered, and returns it 6. Nine days truce for funeral rites The Desecration of Hector

30. A. Achilles’s last battle 1. kills Memnon of Ethiopia (he was helping Troy with an army) 2. drives Trojans back to the city walls 3. Paris shoots Achilles in that vulnerable heel—kills him (his bones are laid with those of Patroclus) B. The death of Ajax 1. Two heroes are nominated to receive the arms of Achilles: Ajax and Odysseus 2. In a secret vote, Odysseus wins—it’s a huge honor 3. Ajax feels disgraced, plans to kill Agamemnon & Menelaus—he blames them for turning the vote against him (he’s right) 4. Ajax pursues them by night; Athena strikes him mad—he thinks a flock of sheep are the Greeks; thinks a ram is Odysseus & beats it up 5. On regaining his senses, he’s humiliated and kills himself

32. C. The arms of Hercules 1. Greeks are discouraged and grab a prophet, Helenus a. Greeks can’t win unless they kill Paris b. Only the bow and arrows of Hercules can kill Paris 2. Philoctetes has them (and he’s NOT a satyr who coached Hercules) a. Philoctetes was with the Greeks on the way to Troy b. On an island, he was bitten by a serpent and the wound would not heal c. The Greeks left him there 3. Odysseus goes for the weapons a. First, he steals them b. Guilt: he gets Philoctetes, takes him to Troy and a Greek doctor 4. Healed, Philoctetes joins the battle, kills Paris with Hercules’s arrows D. Greeks have to steal the Palladium (sacred image of Athena) in order to win—Odysseus is their man Back to Pick Up Stinky Phil

34. E. The Trojan Horse 1. Greeks have to get into Troy to win 2. Odysseus thinks up the Trojan horse a. hollow, big enough to hold a number of men b. chieftains are afraid, except Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, but they agree 3. Remaining Greeks pretend to sail away, but hide behind an island a. one man, Sinon, left on the beach b. primed with a story to get the horse in the city 4. Trojans are thrilled at Greek departure, rush to the beach and see Sinon a. He cries, renounces his Greekhood b. He says Athena was angry over the Palladium & demanded a sacrifice c. Sinon was the sacrifice, but he escaped and hid d. The horse is an offering to Athena, & it’s big so the Trojans can’t take it in e. The Trojans fall for it 5. Warning! Warning! a. Cassandra says not to take it in—no one believes her b. Laocoon, a priest, says burn it—Poseidon sends 2 serpents to crush Laocoon and his sons F. Sigh... 1. The Trojans take the horse into the city 2. At night, soldiers sneak out and let the whole Greek army into the city 3. Troy is burning before the Trojans are even dressed 4. Trojans fight hard: they tear up roofs & throw beams on Greeks; put on dead Greeks’ armor to trap more Greeks 5. The Greeks win How to Trick a Trojan

37. A. Priam: was spared by Achilles, but Neoptolemus kills him B. Hecuba: taken into slavery C. Polyxena (Trojan princess): killed on Achilles’s grave D. Aeneas 1. fights Greeks as long as possible 2. escapes Troy (with mom Aphrodite’s help), saving his father & son, but not his wife 3. his adventures form the Roman epic, Virgil’s Aeneid, which gave Rome a cool history E. Helen 1. Aphrodite helps her out of the city 2. She goes back to Menelaus, and they live happily ever after F. Andromache 1. a captive, to be a slave to a Greek warrior 2. hopes to keep her baby, but that’s not how it’s done 3. messenger arrives, advises her to be brave and not to blame him 4. baby is taken and thrown from the walls of the city, like all the other babies G. Cassandra 1. Agamemnon’s captive, she returns to Mycenae with him 2. She warns Agamemnon of impending doom, but is, of course, ignored 3. Clytemnestra is waiting (with a lover, Aegisthus) and murders Agamemnon and his little hussy, too!