The Trojan War: Part OneRoad 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

• Judgment of Paris• Road to WarCypria• Achilles’ rage• The Ransom of Hector’s bodyIliad• Arrival of Trojan allies• Death of AchillesAethiopsis• Building of the Trojan Horse• Awards to OdysseusLittle Iliad

• The destruction of Troy by the GreeksIlioupersis• The return of the Greek armiesNostoi• The End of Odysseus’ voyage home Odyssey• Odysseus’ final voyageTelegony

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