The Trojan Cycle

The Trojan CycleThe Prophecy: a

beginning!Achilles is

destined to “far surpass his father.”

The Trojan Cycle

the wedding Peleus and Thetis Chaos/ Discordia tosses in the Golden

Apple The promise of Venus to Paris

The Trojan Cycle The abduction

Violation of Guest - Host Customs

The Greeks Prepare for War

The Iliad

Homer Most significant

Greek author Did he exist? Oral tradition Dactylic hexameter Formulaic

composition Oldest extant works

of Greek literature

Iliad Story of the ninth

year of the Trojan war

The insult and the wrath

Achilles sits out of battle

Hector kills patroclus

Achilles destroys hector

Priam’s appeal

The Odyssey The story of the

journey of Odysseus and his men trying to get home after the Trojan War.

10 years an epic about

humans on the journey of life overcoming temptations along the way.

CharactersOdysseus (Ulysses in Latin)Eurylochus - one of the crew

membersTelemachus - Son of

Odysseus, infant when he left for Troy, but old enough to aid parents in Odyssey

Penelope - wife of odysseus, fends off suitors

MonstersPolyphemus - cyclopsScylla - monster with 12 feet and 6

heads with 3 rows of teeth, carries off a sailor in each mouth

Charybdis - 3 times a day pulls sailors into her whirlpool

Sirens - group of females who lured sailors by their singing

Deities Circe - goddess, enchantress, who turned

men into swine Helios - the sun (distinct from Apollo, the

sun god) Zeus (Jupiter in Latin) - leader of the gods Athena - Goddess of wisdom and warriors Poseidon - god of the sea Calypso - nymph who holds odysseus

prisoner for seven years

The NostoiNostoi -

homecomingsOther, lesser epics

that do not survive.Greek dramatic

triology Oresteia relates the homecoming of Agamemnon

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