The Illiad

The Illiad

Trojan Characters:

Hector

Paris

Helen

Greek Side:

Achillies

Patroclus

Odysseus

Agamemnon

Menelaus

Diomedes

Ajax the Great

Ajax the Lesser

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Chapter 3

Chapter 8

Chapter 4

Hector returns to Troy to ask the Gods for help in battle. Hector urges Paris to join the Trojan

warriors and says goodbye to his wife, Andromache, and son. She advises him to do a

hide attack with the Trojans, but he doesn't want to look like a coward.

Advisors of Agamemnon suggest he apologize to Achilles.

Agamemnon offers Achilles many gifts so he'd rejoin the

Greeks and keep Hector from burning their ships, but

Achillies refuses.

While the Trojans mourn the death of Hector, they are angered that Achilles will not return his corpse to Troy. The gods make Achilles give the Trojans Hector's body. After Hector's father, Priam, returns to Troy, they conduct a funeral for him.

" Then godlike Achilles.."

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".. surely Zeus, the Loud-Thunderer, should permit me to be honored."

Chapter 6

Epilogue

When Achilles finds out that Hector has Patroclus,

he is determined to kill Hector. Agamemnon and Achilles

settle their differences when Achilles asked if his friend's death was worth this quarrel. Hector runs from Achilles,

and Achilles chases Hector around the walls of Troy.

Both sentences are epic hero characteristics

Achilles is kiled by Paris at the Scaen Gates,

like Hector told him he would, by shooting

an arrow in his heel. 3

Chapter 7

The Lord of Olympus advised Athena to let Achilles kill Hector.

Achilles put his spear into Hector's neck and killed him. While

dying, Hector warns Achilles of Achillies own death.

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Zeus sends a dream to Agamemnon,

telling him to have the Achaians attack

Troy.

Trojan War Con't:

• Greeks built a wooden horse as a gift to Troy

• Presented to Troy with Greek soldiers hiding in it

• Battle lasted for 10 years

("Trojan War." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia)

("Trojan War." Encyclopedia Americana.

Grolier Online)

Date of Publication : Unknown

When and Where it was Written: Believed to have been written in Troy, which is now modern-day Turkey.

Rosenberg, Donna. World Mythology: An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Pub. Group, 1994. Print.

".. you threaten to take away my prize of honor, which I earned and which the Greeks gave to me."

"...even though I am the greatest Greek fighter."

Words said by Achilles, like greatest, and

prize of honor, show how the warrior society

was and how he follows the epic hero

guideline.

CHAPTER 2

Chapter 5

Achilles' mom persuades Zeus, the Greek God,

to restore Achilles' honor by showing the greeks that,

the Trojans will defeat the them, if he joins the war again.

Zeus then sends a dream to Agamemnon telling the king to

attack on the city of Troy, and the attack will be successful.

Menelaus and Paris fight one another when the Greeks and

Trojans meet on the battlefield, but neither warrier is clearly

victorious.

Achilles allows Patroclus to lead the Myrmidons into battle.

Patroclus, wearing Achilles' armor, is able to push the Trojans

away from the Greek ships and back toward Troy. While dying,

Patroclus tells Hector, the man who killed him, that Achilles

will soon kill Hector.

Chapter 1

Begins 9 years after the start of

the Trojan War. Agamemnon insults

the priest of Appolo. Appolo then

punishes the Greeks. To correct the

mess, Agamemnon must give up

Chryseis, the priests' daughter. Achilles

and Agamemnon argue, and then

Agamemnon takes his prize, Briseis.

As a result, Achilles withdraws from

battling in the Trojan War.