Connections of The Iliad and The Odyssey and Odysseus’s role in both.

THE TROJAN WAR

THE ILIAD IN A NUTSHELL• The Iliad summarizes the ten year war between the Greeks and the Trojans, but the real

action of the plot takes place over the period of a few weeks.

• Achilles becomes angry with Agamemnon and refuses to fight. To make sure his side misses him, he prays to Zeus to let the other side, the Trojans, win for a while.

• Achilles allows a fellow soldier to wear his armor, and Hector kills him, thinking it is Achilles. Hector puts on the armor.

• Achilles forgets his quarrel with Agamemnon and returns to battle as soon as he has new armor, even though he is warned that he is destined to die soon after Hector.

• He kills Hector and refuses for several days to let his body be buried, but at last Priam comes to Achilles at night and offers ransom for the body, which Achilles accepts.

• The Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector.

• Located in ancient Turkey

• Priam is the king of Troy

• He has two sons: Paris and Hector.

• Paris convinces Helen to leave Menelaus and come to Troy with him.

• Hector is a great leader and warrior of the Trojan War

• Located in ancient Greece

• Ruler is Agamemnon

• Agamemnon’s brother is Menelaus, king of Sparta, another Grecian city

• Helen, Menelaus’s wife, is the Queen of Sparta. She is regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world.

PEOPLE AND PLACES OF THE TROJAN WAR

MYCENAE TROY

• Menelaus, outraged by Paris’s actions, asks Agamemnon for help.

• Agamemnon sees a war against Troy as an opportunity for wealth and power.

• Achilles and Odysseus are two great soldiers who will lead Agamemnon’s army.

• Agamemnon sends 1,000 ships to Troy to launch the Trojan War and get Helen back to Menelaus.

• This is where we get the phrase “the face that launched 1,000 ships.”

PEOPLE AND PLACES OF THE TROJAN WAR

THE TROJAN WAR STORY

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• Son of Laertes

• Ruler of Ithaca (in ancient Greece)

• Known for cleverness, cunning, and eloquence

• Original suitor of Helen of Troy

• When Menelaus asked the other suitors to help him get Helen back from Troy, Odysseus didn’t want to help, so he pretended to be crazy.

• He gave himself away when Palamedes placed Odysseus’s infant so in front of his plow, and he turned to avoid hurting his son.

ODYSSEUS’S ROLE IN THE TROJAN WAR

• After that, he had to fight in the Trojan war, and he did so heroically, alongside Achilles.

• For ten years the Greeks fought the Trojans unsuccessfully, so they pretended to retreat.

• It was Odysseus’s idea to leave behind a huge wooden horse, in which a number of Greek heroes had hidden themselves.

• A spy convinced the Trojans to move the horse inside the city as a war trophy.

• The following night, the Greeks left the wooden horse and attacked the unsuspecting and celebrating Trojans, and finally conquered Troy.

ODYSSEUS’S ROLE IN THE TROJAN WAR

• According to Greek legend, Paris fights in the Trojan War, but he is mostly out of legend until Hector is killed by Achilles.

• While Achilles and his allies bring Hector's body back into Troy for a funeral, Paris launches an arrow at Achilles.

• Appolo guides his arrow so that it hits Achilles's foot, in the famous Achilles tendon. Achilles dies, and Paris is killed soon after in the war.

• Though the movie Troy suggests that Achilles (Brad Pitt) was inside the Trojan horse, Greek mythology depicts that Achilles was killed before the famous episode.

DEATH OF ACHILLES

THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY:CONNECTIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE

THE ODYSSEY PREVIEW

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