THE ILIAD: GODS AND GODDESSES
MAN, MYTH, MEANING
THE TROJAN WAR
Map of Greece/Troy In The Bronze Age
GOD/GODDESSES ON THE GREEK
SIDE
PARTHENON
TEMPLE OF ATHENA
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
ATHENA GODDESS OF WAR AND
WISDOM
HER TEMPLE TODAY
ATHENS, GREECE
ATHENA, THE GODDESS
BORN
FROM
THE
HEAD
SHE IS
THE
CONSUMMATE
OF ZEUS
WARRIORESS
HERA WIFE AND SISTER OF ZEUS
FANATICAL
SHE WILL GO
TO ANY LENGTHS
INCLUDING
THE DECEPTION
OF HER HUSBAND
FOR THE DEFEAT
OF TROY
HERMES, AMBASSADOR OF THE
GODS
CONDUCTOR
OF DEAD SOULS
TO HADES
HE DOES
LITTLE TO
AID THE
GREEKS
HE ESCORTS
PRIAM ON
HIS VISIT
TO ACHILLES
IN BOOK 24
HERMES WITH CUPID AND UNKNOWN WOMAN
TEMPLE OF POSEIDON
YOUNGER
BROTHER
OF ZEUS
GOD
OF
THE
SEA
POSEIDON
HE IS
RESENTFUL
OF ZEUS’
CLAIM TO
AUTHORITY
OVER HIM
THETIS IMPLORING ZEUS
MOTHER OF
ACHILLES
A SEA NYMPH
SHE SUPPORTS
HER SON IN HIS
QUARREL WITH
AGAMEMNON
SHE IS
NOT
OTHERWISE
INVOLVED
IN THE
WAR
HIS
TEMPLE
ZEUS KING OF THE GODS
THE SKY GOD HIMSELF
THE ULTIMATE
ANTHROPOMORPHIC
CONCEPTION
OF GOD IN THE SKY
ORIGINATING
IN THE HUMAN
MIND
GOD/GODDESSES ON THE TROJAN
SIDE
TROY BURNING
THE TROJAN HORSE
THE
END
OF THE
TROJANS
A PLOY
CRAFTED
BY
ODYSSEUS
APHRODITE
GODDESS OF LOVE
DAUGHTER
OF ZEUS
HER LOVE IS ARES, GOD OF WAR
MOTHER OF
AENEAS,
PATRON OF
PARIS
APOLLO
HE
FIGHTS
ON
THE TROJAN
SIDE
SON OF
ZEUS
GOD OF
LIGHT,
PROPHECY,
POETRY,
MUSIC.
APOLLO RAINING DOWN ARROWS
ON THE GREEKS AGAMEMNON
REFUSES
HIS PRIEST,
CHRYSES,
BRINGS
RANSOM
TO
AGAMEMNON
IN THE HOPE
THAT HE WILL
RELEASE
HIS DAUGHTER,
CHRYSEIS
DESTRUCTION IS BROUGHT ON THE GREEKS
THAT
HE
WOULD
SUPPORT
THE
GREEKS
ARES GOD OF WAR
SON OF ZEUS AND
HERA, LOVER OF
APHRODITE.
HE FIGHTS ON THE
TROJAN SIDE,
DESPITE AN
EARLIER PROMISE
TO HERA AND
ATHENA
ANCIENT
TEMPLE
OF
ARTEMIS
ARTEMIS
SHE FIGHTS WITH LITTLE EFFECT,
ON
THE
TROJAN
SIDE
GODDESS
OF THE HUNT,
WILD ANIMALS,
AND BIRTH.
Schliemann’s Trench
Remains of Troy, Hellespont
SHIELD OF ACHILLES
MICROCOSM
AND
MACROCOSM
OF
HUMAN
EXPERIENCE
FALL OF TROY, F0UNDING OF ROME
MYTHICALLY
IRONIC THAT
IN THE
VIOLENT
DESTRUCTION
OF ONE
GREAT
CIVILIZATION,
ANOTHER
RISES ON ITS
ASHES