Transcript Trojan Cycle

The Trojan Cycle
The Trojan Cycle
 The 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
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author
Did he exist?
Oral tradition
Dactylic hexameter
Formulaic composition
Oldest extant works of
Greek literature
Iliad
 Story of the ninth year
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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.
Characters
 Odysseus (Ulysses in Latin)
 Eurylochus - one of the crew
members
 Telemachus - Son of Odysseus,
infant when he left for Troy, but
old enough to aid parents in
Odyssey
 Penelope - wife of odysseus,
fends off suitors
Monsters
 Polyphemus - cyclops
 Scylla - 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
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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 Nostoi
 Nostoi -
homecomings
 Other, lesser epics
that do not survive.
 Greek dramatic
triology Oresteia
relates the
homecoming of
Agamemnon
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