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Conflict/Resolution Chart (Main Ideas)
Chapter
Prologue
Cause
1. Eris was not invited to the wedding &
Paris was forced to choose the “fairest
goddess.
1. Paris chose Aphrodite who made Helen
fall in love with him.
2. Helen left Sparta with Paris for Troy.
2. A thousand ships sailed for Troy to
bring Helen back to Sparta.
3. King Agamemnon angered the god
Apollo by refusing to release Chryseis.
1. Achilles proposed that Agamemnon
return Chryseis to end the plague.
Chapter 1
2. Achilles’ mother, Thetis, heard him
“Agamemnon’s mourning and asked Zeus to help the
Anger”
Trojans.
2. Achilles would not fight and
Agamemnon would suffer until he gave
Achilles the respect he deserved.
1. Agamemnon tested the Greek soldiers’
courage, and in the end, the Greeks would
be overeager, except Achilles, to fight the
Trojans.
1. Paris challenged any Greek hero to
fight.
1. Menelaus accepted the challenge.
Chapter 3
2. Paris finally agreed to fight stating
“A Challenge” whoever wins gets Helen and her wealth.
1. Menelaus and Paris battle.
Chapter 5
“The Battle
Begins”
3. Apollo rained plague upon the camp.
1. Agamemnon returned Chryseis but took
Briseis from Achilles.
1. Zeus sends a false dream to
Agamemnon.
Chapter 2
“A Test”
Chapter 4
“A Duel”
Effect
2. Aphrodite conjured a mist to protect
Paris.
2. Offerings were made to the gods and the
oaths were sworn.
1. Aphrodite interfered in the battle and
helped Paris.
2. Paris escaped through the Trojan lines
and the city gates to his home.
1. Zeus & Hera argued about the battle
and interfered with the truce.
1. Athena sent word that Menelaus must
die by Pandarus’ arrow.
2. Athena deflected the arrow and
wounded Menelaus.
2. Agamemnon called off the truce and a
bloody war began again.
Chapter
Cause
Effect
1. The Trojans needed a hero as brave as
the bravest Greek.
1. The Trojan hero Hector was confronted
by his men to fight in the battle.
1. Hector must leave the battle and to go
Troy to make proper sacrifice to Athena
and the gods of war.
1. He asked his mother and the women to
pray while he confronted Paris.
2. Hector said goodbye to his wife and son
to head back to war.
2. Paris joined his brother in the war.
1. Hector proposed a fight between a
Greek champion and a Trojan champion.
1. Ajax was chosen to battle with Hector.
Chapter 6
“The Battle
Continues”
Chapter 7
“Hector”
Chapter 8
Champions
Meet”
Chapter 9
“Burials”
2. They fought like savage men with
neither man winning. They could not go
2. They clasped hands and parted. They
on until the gods decided which one should will meet again.
die.
1. The Greeks proposed a truce so they
could all collect the dead and give them
proper burials.
1. The Trojans accepted the offer of a
truce. The Trojans proposed to end the
war by returning all the wealth Paris took
from Sparta, but not Helen.
2. The Greeks refused the Trojans
proposal of returning the wealth.
2. Zeus was restless.
1. Zeus demanded that no god or goddess
shall interfere in the war.
1. The war continued.
1. Hera and Athena begged Zeus to give
the Greeks a chance.
1. Zeus sent a message that Hector will
harass his enemies until Achilles fights.
Chapter 10
“To Battle
Again”
Chapter 11
“Zeus’s
Message”
Chapter 12
“An Apology”
Chapter 13
“Ambush”
Chapter 14
“War”
Chapter 15
“Omens”
1. Diomedes blamed Agamemnon for the
quarrel with Achilles.
1. Agamemnon offered an apology to
Achilles through Ajax and Odysseus.
2. Achilles refused the offer and suggested
Ajax and Odysseus held home too because
Zeus will not let Troy be taken.
2. The Greeks get some sleep so they are
ready to fight at dawn.
1. During the night, a Trojan spy got into
the Greek camp. The spy, Dolan, was
caught by Odysseus and Diomedes.
1. Dolan gave them the password and the
plan for attack. Odysseus and Diomedes
snuck into the Trojan camp and killed 17
Trojans and stole horses. Apollo was
furious.
1. The Greeks swept eagerly over the
plain toward the city walls, so Zeus
promised to give the Trojans strength.
1. Paris wounded Machaon, Achilles
friend, and the Trojans attacked the beach
where the Greeks were camped.
1. Zeus sent a warning that he was on the
Greek’s side, and the Trojans gained a
foothold.
1. Hector and his men brought panic to the
Greeks as they fled between their curving
ships.
1. Trojan troops tried to attack the ships.
1. Poseidon interfered with wind and a
storm. He also put courage in the Greek
hearts. Hera distracted Zeus, and he slept.
1. Zeus was furious when he awoke and
gave the Trojans the upper hand.
1. Patroclus dressed in Achilles’ armor
and took his horse to throw off the Trojans
so the Greeks could recover.
Chapter 16
“Interfering
Gods”
Chapter 17
“Patroclus
Goes to War”
2. Patroclus approached the Trojan walls
three times.
2. Apollo threw him back.
3. Apollo hit Patroclus and took his
breastplate.
3. Hector was able to kill Patroclus
because of Apollo.
Patroclus is dead! Achilles wanted to
find Hector and kill him.
Thetis went to the god Hepaestus to get
armor as not mortal ever had. Achilles could
not fight until Thetis returned with the
armor but must show himself to the Trojans.
While Achilles’ armor was being made,
Patroclus was buried, and Achilles
shouted, “HECTOR!” so all the Trojans
could see him.
Achilles will make peace with Agamemnon
and go to war.
Chapter 18
“Achilles’
Grief”
Chapter 19
“Achilles’
Armor”
Chapter 20
“Achilles and
Hector”
Chapter 21
“Zeus
Interferes”
Chapter 22
“A Brave Old
Man”
Epilogue
1. Agamemnon apologized to Achilles
1. Achilles wanted to fight after the men are
saying he was blinded by Zeus, Fate, and fed.
anger.
2. Hector proposed that no outrage will come
2. Hector boasted that he was not afraid to the either corpse.
to confront Achilles.
3. Achilles dragged Hector’s dead body
3. Achilles disagreed and killed Hector.
around the walls of Troy.
Achilles shamefully sent 12 Trojan
Zeus sent a message through Thetis that
prisoners on the same journey as Hector, Achilles must return Hector to Priam or
and continued to drag Hector’s body
suffer the risk of Zeus. Achilles must accept
each day.
Priam’s ransom.
1. Iris comes to King Priam with a
1. King Priam kisses Achilles hands (the
message from Zeus to go to Achilles with hands that killed his son), and asked for his
ransom in return for his son, Hector. He son back.
cannot stand the sight of his other sons.
2. King Priam leaves with Hector’s body. 2. The war began again.
1. The Trojan lacked a hero.
1. Memnon, Priam’s half nephew, came to
fight.
2. Memnon challenged any Greek in
combat.
2. Achilles friend is killed and Ajax agreed to
fight.
3. Achilles fought instead and killed
Memnon. Paris wanted to avenge his
3. Paris shot Achilles in the heel and killed
brother’s killer.
him.
4. Athena proposed a cunning solution.
5. The Trojans take the horse into Troy.
4. Trojan horse was built.
5. The Greeks sacked the city, pillaged
riches, butchered men and boys, enslaved the
children and women, and set sail for home.