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Trojan War Culture

Trojan War Culture. Unit Three. The Trojan War and Aeneas Heroes, gods, beautiful women, battles , love , betrayal, death, destruction: . Cultural and Reading Objectives. I can: Identify the event of the Trojan War Recognize the major characters of the Trojan War Locate Troy on a map

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Trojan War Culture

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  1. Trojan War Culture

  2. Unit Three The Trojan War and Aeneas Heroes, gods, beautiful women, battles, love, betrayal, death, destruction:

  3. Cultural and Reading Objectives • 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

  4. Pre-test for Trojan War • 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?

  5. The Sources • 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

  6. The Impact of the Trojan War • 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…

  7. Character List: The Greeks • Peleus *Thetis *Jupiter • *Eris/Discordia *Juno *Minerva • *Venus *Mercury • * deity • Helen Menelaus • Clytemnestra Agamemnon

  8. More Greeks • Patroclus Achilles • Ulysses/Odysseus Penelope • *Diana Iphigenia • Diomedes • BriseisChryseis • Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus • Sinon

  9. The Trojans • Priam Hecuba • Paris/Alexander Oenone Cassandra • Hector Andromache Astyanax • Anchises *Venus Aeneas • Laocoon

  10. The Places of the Trojan War • Troy Hellespont Black Sea • Mt. Ida Aulis Sparta • Mycenae Scaean Gate Palladium • Tenedos Elysian Fields

  11. Very Basic Outline • 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,

  12. 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

  13. Achilles the brat • Battlefield incidents • Menelaus and Paris • Diomedes, Athena, Aeneas, Venus, • Hector, Andromache, Astyanax • Achilles still a brat • character of Ulyssess

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. AENEAS’ JOURNEY

  17. Aeneas Part One • Venus Vergil The Aeneid • Trojans Greeks *Troy • Paris *Thrace Anchises • Ascanius *Crete Aeneas • Creusa Harpies/*Strophades • Juno Cyclopes Polyphemus • *Carthage Punic War *Sicily • Dido Palinurus Aeolus • Mercury *Cumae/Sibyl Neptune • Anna Prosperpina Hector • *Mt. Vesuvius/Lake Avernus

  18. Aeneas Part Two • *Latium Evander Euryalus • LaviniumLatinus Etruscans • Pallas *Alba Longa Lavinia • MezentiusLausus *Tiber • Turnus Vulcan Camilla • Julius Caesar IulusMisus • Juturna

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