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the discovery
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archaeologists found the remains of a great citadel that existed on the Western shore of Asia Minor (Troy)
b4 they thought the Trojan war was just legend found about 100 years ago led by Heinrich Schliemann |
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how the story spread
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Homer's two epics, the Illiad and the Odyssey
elaborated by post-Homeric poets |
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the cause
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Homer: just the rape of Helen
later: marriage of Peleus and Thetis |
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Peleus and Thetis
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Eris threw an apple maked "for the fairest" into a crowd of gods
Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite wanted it Paris chose Aphrodite for Helen....she became an ally while Hera and Athena grew to hate the Trojans |
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Menelaus
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husband of Helen
brother of Agamemnon, the greatest Greek king traveled with brother to rally kings to go attack troy |
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the Greek kings
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Agamemnon was chosen commander-in-chief; next to him the most prominent Greek heroes are his brother Menelaus, Achilles and Patroclus, two unrelated men named Ajax, Teucer, Nestor and his son Antilochus, Odysseus, Diomedes, Idomeneus, and Philoctetes, who, however, at the very outset of the expedition had to be left behind, and does not appear on the scene of action until just before the fall of Troy
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the set out
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100,000 men and 1,186 ships
assembled at the harbor of Aulis |
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Calchas
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he is the seer of the host
while making sacrifices before setting out at the harbor of Aulis a snake darted out from under the altar, ascended a tree, devoured a brood of eight young sparrows and the mother-bird, and finally was turned into stone he interpreted this to mean that the war would last 9 years and end in the 10th with the fall of Troy |
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Agamemnon's oracle
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Agamemnon had already received an oracle from Delphi that Troy would fall when the best of the Greeks quarreled
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in homer they go direcly to Troy, but in later versions they...
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the Greeks at first land by mistake in Mysia, in the country of Telephus
they are dispersed by a storm and driven back to Greece, and then assemble afresh at Aulis Once there, they learn that divine disfavor is preventing them from the crossing to Troy until Agamemnon agrees to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia to appease the angry gods |
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once in troy...
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Odysseus and Menelaus proceed as ambassadors to Troy, to demand the surrender of Helen
Paris wont agree even tho Helen thinks she should go and Antenor warns them war is declared |
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the Trojans
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barely one-tenth as many men
they have some heroes....Aenaes, Sarpedon, Glaucus, n Hector |
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the Illiad begins
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starts in the 10th year and lasts for 51 days
the trojans are too scared of Achilles to leave their well-fortified city so the Greeks can only really attack the surrounding country and get war prizes (Chryseis) |
