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Latin IV/V
Achilles is born
10 year siege...
Greeks on shores of Troy
BEFORE
1300 bce
TROY- 1300 BCE
POWERFUL CITY STRENGTHENED BY NATURAL RESOURCES (TRADE & BANKING)
PRIAM
50 sons, 12 daughters
With Hecuba and others
LAOMEDON
Hecuba's dream of the torch
Walls of Troy built by Poseidon (disquised). Took 1 year, and King Laomedon rips him off with fees"-- Poseidon angry, eventually kills all family except son Priam.
gods telling her that the child would destroy Troy... Huntsman doesn't kill child like he said.
GREECE:
Zeus rapes Leda in form of swan, Helen is born from an egg
Helen's suitors must protect her and her marriage
Paleus marries Thetis... wedding on Mt. Olympus, thrown by Zeus
Why? Prophecy, Zeus doesn't want Thetis's child to overpower gods.
Everyone invited, except Eris (Discord)... but she crashes anyway
Her gift to Paleus- Apple "for the fairest"
Paleus can't decide, tells Zeus to choose.
Paleus & Thetis flee to Earth, Zeus brings problem to earth
Zeus must decide between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena
PARIS, 18 YR OLD SHEPARD, VOLUNTEERS TO DECIDE
ALL DIETIES HAD TO BE COVERED IN MIST SO PARIS WOULDN'T BE SCARRED BY BEAUTY
Aphrodite wins, promised him most beautiful woman & says that he is actually the Prince of Troy, not a sheppard
Paris goes back to Troy, now 2nd to Throne... Priam forgets the Prophecy (Torch to burn down Troy).
Paris goes to tour SPARTA, forms familial relationship with Menelaus.
Menelaus intoduces Helen, Paris tells Aphrodite to shoot the arrow that causes Helen to love Paris.
7th time, Paleus catches her and saves baby. Once Thetis breastfeeds it, she loves her child
At 1 yr old, they name the baby Achilles. Prophecy says Achilles will either live a long and unremarkable OR a legendary and short life. Thetis dips him in river Styx for immortality (except heel)
Thetis &Paleus are expecting children, but each time Thetis gives birth, the sea nymph drowns her son each of the 6 times... Refused to have a half bred child or grace Paleus with children.
Achilles kills poisonous serpent
grows into remarkable Greek war hero
Helen Abducted
Paris takes Helen to Troy, Menelaus leaves Sparta
Agamemnon makes it seem as though Helen was abducted
but really, he wanted Troy's trade... "the face that launched a thousand ships"
Agamemnon sends Palamedes to find Odysseus, Odysseus pretends to be mad so he doesn't have to go.
Odysseus (& Ajax) then sent to find Achilles in Skyros.. he was disguised as a woman
Meanwhile, Paris marries Helen
Agamemnon ready to sail to Troy & invade, but Artemis keeps shifting the wind.
1) Greeks killed deer in forest land.
2) Agamemnon bragged that he was a better hunter than she.
3) Advanced punishments for future deeds
Agamemnon sends representatives (Odysseus & Menelaus) to Troy to formally declare war
Agamemnon sacrifices IPHIGENIA & light her body on fire to please Artemis
Trojans formally declare war because they want to keep Helen! They also think their walls (made by gods) can't be breached
Priest of Apollo asks Agamemnon to retrieve daughter Chryseis
Agamemnon refuses and taunts Priest, who then goes to Apollo's temple and asks for the Greeks to suffer.
Apollo releases plague arrows onto Greek camp, Greeks die, but Agamemnon doesn't back down
10 days later, Achilles reasons with Agamemnon, so he returns Chriseis but needs another slave girl, takes Achilles's. They get into a fight that needs the gods' to step in.
Odysseus escorts Chryseis home
Thetis asks gods at Mt. Olympus to make Agamemnon grovel at Achilles's feet and apologize.
Meanwhile, Athena imbues Diomedes (Greek) with god-like combative power
-killed 12 Trojan warlords
-Aineias saved by mother Aphrodite, Apollo tries to protect
-Stabs Ares
*challenges Glaukus to a duel, find out they have family conenctions & call a truce
Hector proposes showdown to Agamemnon... only one dead man, winner take all
75,000 Trojans sit with Hector and 100,000 Greeks, watch
nobody wins
Agamemnon tempts Achilles to get him to fight, but he is rejected
Hera seduces Zeus to turn tide of battle
Achilles kills Hector
Patroculus dresses in Achilles armor & is imbued with Zeus's powers
violates prophecy.
Apollo punches him, Hector kills Patroculus & puts on Achilles's armor.
Achilles rejoins fight with new armor, ends drama with Agamemnon
Hunts down 12 boys that he will kill along with Hector
Hector fights Achilles, tries to escape into Troy but can't and is stabbed by Achilles.
Drags Hector from his charriot
Achilles slits the throats of the 12 Trojan princes. Won't sleep, eat, bathe until Patroculus is properly burried.
Throws a grand funeral, drags Hector around funeral pyre.
Apollo prevents Hector's body from decomposing & calls council of gods
Priam goes to Achilles's tent, kisses Achilles's hands & gives a speech about being a father. They both cry.
Day long truce to mourn & bury
-not enough soldiers
- need to find new leader
-more tentative
-want war to be over without much more death
-Achilles doesnt have reason to fight
Aeneus shunned by Priam, who was afraid his legacy would be lost.
NEW KING Memnon arrives with 10,000 men, is killed by Achilles
Amazonian Queen Penthasilia killed by Achilles
Priam offers a daughter to Achilles, meet in temple of Apollo.
Paris shoots arrow at Achilles's heel, Achilles dies... Prophecy fulfilled.
Competition for his armor... Odysseus wins, Ajax commits suicide
Odysseus &Diomedes steal statue to get gods' favor & win
Philoctities and Odysseus shoot Paris
Priests say that Paris's previous wife (while he was a sheppard) would save him. She refuses to help & he dies.
Deiphobus now Helen's husband
Thought of by Odysseus, made by Epeius
Odysseus & Sinon craft the cover story... Agamemnon tells Greeks that Athena was mad
Lacoon warns Trojans about staute. Sinon gets captured by Trojans and lies about horse.
Trojan walls torn down to get horse in
Trojans party and get drunk
30 men are inside Trojan Horse, get out and torch Troy
Kill the men, take women as prisoner
Neptolemus kills Priam on Zeus's altar
Helen runites with Menelaus
Athena plans to kill Greeks at sea