“The Iliad”
<In short>
Characters
Achilles:
 Very powerful ______________ warrior
 Flaw: cocky & prideful
o In later myths, we find out he had a
weak ______________
 Has two fates:
o Live a ______________with a family
o Die young but in a ______________
Agamemnon:
 King of ______________
The Story of Thetis & Zeus:
 Zeus, the god of all gods loved Thetis,
the ______________ of the
______________
 The prophets said if they had a son, he
would be stronger than ______________
 Zeus said “heck no!”
 Zeus pawns Thetis off on a mortal,
___________

 BrTogether
other of _they
_____have
____Achilles,
____, kinga of Sparta
______________
 Bully toward ______________
Patroclus:
 Achilles’ ______________
 Dies in battle fighting ______________
Odysseus:
 King of ______________ (Greek island)
 Strong like Achilles, but has more
____________
 Builds the Trojan Horse and leads the
Achaeans to destroy ______________
 Convinces Achilles to fight in the war
against Troy
Priam:
 Paris & Hector’s ______________
 The king of ______________
 A pushover for Paris; he does whatever
Paris wants him to
Achaean:
 The fancy name
for a
___________warrio
r
Paris:
 Prince of ______________
 “kidnaps” ______________, queen of Sparta
because he loves her
 Everyone dislikes him because he puts
Troy in harms way
o He brings Helen to Troy & causes the
war between the ______________s&
______________
o When ______________, the goddess of
love, and ______________, the
goddess of wisdom and war, ask him
who is prettier ,he says Aphrodite,
which makes Athena very angry
Menelaus:
 King of ______________
 Wife, Helen, is kidnapped by the Trojan
prince, Paris
Hector:
 Paris’ ______________
 Other prince of Troy
 Very prideful and loyal to his
______________
 Fights ______________ in a one-on-one
battle
Helen:
 The “Most beautiful woman in the world”
 Leaves her husband ______________, king
of Sparta, for ______________, prince of
Troy
 Means trouble for the Trojans – the war is
partially her fault because she left her
country
Homer’s Gods & Goddesses:
 Not bound by ______________, like mortals
are
 Have close bonds with ______________
o EX: Aphrodite & Paris, Athena &
Odysseus
 Immortal
o Their veins are full of _______instead
of blood
 Eat ______________and drink Nectar
o Also “eat” smoke from animal
sacrifices and spilled wine as
_____________from mortals
 Repay mortals by help in battle, guiding
them on quests, etc.
Athena:
 Goddess of wisdom and ______________
 Angry at Paris because he said Aphrodite
was prettier than her
o She allies with the Achaeans because
of this
Ares:
 The god of ______________
Thetis:
 Goddess of the ______________
 Achilles’ ______________
 Allies with the ______________
Poseidon:
 God of the ______________
 Allies with the ______________
Zeus:
 God of all ______________
 Neutral party
Hephaestus:
 God of ______________and metal-working
 Neutral party
Hades:
 God of the ______________
 Neutral party
 Allies with ______________
Aphrodite:
 The goddess of ______________
 Allies with ______________
Apollo:
 The god of ______________
 Allies with ______________
Timeline of Events – Condensed Version
1. Paris insults Athena by saying Aphrodite is ______________
2. Menelaus doesn’t want to go to war; Agamemnon is trying to get ______________ (formerly known
as Aeolus) to join their alliance
3. Paris steals” Helen
4. Agamemnon and Menelaus declare war on ______________; Thessaly joins
5. the Achaeans and Trojans fight for ______________years
6. Agamemnon captures two maidens, ______________and ______________; he gives Briseis to
Achilles and keeps Chryseis for himself
7. ______________, Chryseis’ father, asks Agamemnon to let her daughter go; Agamemnon says no
8. Chryses prays to Apollo to put a ______________on the Achaeans; plague lasts for nine days
9. the Achaeans get angry about the plague and make Agamemnon give Chryseis back;
Agamemnon does, but takes Briseis
10. Achilles lets Briseis go, but gets angry and ______________to fight in the battle anymore
11. Achilles prays to his mother, Thetis, to “pull some strings” in battle and ______________the
Achaeans to teach Agamemnon a lesson
12. Thetis gets ______________to make the Achaeans weak and lose the battle led by
______________, Prince of Troy and Paris’ brother
13. ______________asks to fight in Hector’s battle, disguised as Achilles, in order to trick and scare
the Trojans
14. The Trojans are scared and retreat; ______________does not and he kills Patroclus
15. Achilles finds out Patroclus had died and swears ______________on Hector; Thetis asks
______________to make Achilles a new suit of armor to fight in
16. Achilles fights Hector and ______________him
17. Achilles ties Hector’s body to the back of his ______________and drags it across the battlefield for
nine days; he is trying to make a point as he is very upset over Patroclus’ death at Hector’s hands
18. Achilles angers the ______________with his vengeful actions and they demand he cease
19. ______________visits Achilles and begs for Hector’s body back so the Trojans can give him a
proper burial; Achilles agrees
20. “The Iliad” ends with Hector’s funeral
What happens between “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”?
 Paris dies in an attack; he is struck by a poisoned arrow of ______________, the prince of
______________
 Paris goes to his first wife, ______________, who has promised to heal his wound after he left her
for Helen
 Oenoe refuses to heal his wounds because he hasn’t been back tor her for ___________years;
he’s been too focused on Helen
 Paris returns to Troy to ______________; Oenoe regrets her decision and tries to save Paris, but
it’s too late
 Helen is forced to remarry – she marries ______________, Paris’ brother-in-law
 Odysseus, at the advice of ______________and with the help of ______________, a Greek artist,
leads the Achaeans in a build of a giant, hollow wooden ______________, known as the Trojan
Horse
 Some Achaeans hid inside and the rest sailed away in the ships to trick the Trojans into thinking
they ____________
 ______________, a Greek, was left behind to convince the Trojans that the Greeks deserted him
and that the horse was a sign of ______________
 The majority of the Trojans believed Sinon and ______________all night
 While they slept in a drunken stupor, the Achaeans broke out of the horse and killed everyone,
______________Troy
 Deiphobus, Helen’s new husband, is killed in the fall of Troy by King ______________
 Helen returns to Sparta to live with ______________again
What happened to Achilles, you ask?
 Thetis attempted to make Achilles immortal by dipping him into the ______________
 She held him by his left ______________, which made his heel the only body part to not be dipped
in the magical waters; this was the only area capable of a mortal ______________
 In a battle, Achilles is shot in the heel by an arrow shot by ______________; Achilles dies
And so starts Homer’s ”The Odyssey”…