ILIAD

BY HOMER
 PERIODs OF ANCIENT
GREEK LITERATURE
1. Classical
- Birth of original works
- Needs and ideals of communities
2. Hellenistic
- More cosmopolitan
- For entertainment and scientific
instruction
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3. Greco-roman
- Rome conquered Greece for 6 years
- pagan literature
4. byzantine period
- Constantine I rebuilit Byzantium
and renamed it Constantinople
- Christian literature and religious
poetry
 Homer herodotus
- Blind poet - Said that homer was a
- Iliad and Odyssey Greek from ionia on the
- Greatest ancient west coat of asia minor
- Greek epic poet 3in 850 bc
 FACTS ABOUT THE ILIAD

- DIVIDED INTO 24 BOOKS

- PASSED DOWN THROUGH ORAL TRADITION

- TROY WAS CALLED ILIUM, SO ILIAD TRANSLATED

LITERALLY WOULD BE “POEM OF TROY”
THE TROJAN WAR

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The Iliad takes place in the 10th and final year
of the Trojan War, which was the greatest
conflict in Greek mythology
The war was fought between the Achaeans
(greeks) and Trojans (with their allies), upon
the city of Troy (Ilium), on Asia Minor
(modern Turkey).
The war lasted for ten years and it has been
traditionally dated from 1194 to 1184 BC.
The Trojan War influenced art, literature,
music, and philosophy for generations to
come.
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Plot overview +
characters
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Yellow Blue Red

Is the color of gold, Is the colour of the Is the color of
butter and ripe clear sky and the blood, and because
lemons. In the deep sea. It is of this it has
spectrum of visible located between historically been
light, yellow is violet and green on associated with
found between the optical sacrifice, danger
green and orange. spectrum. and courage.

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 CHRYSEIS & BRISEIS CHRYSES
- beautiful maidens - Chryseis’ father
from Chryse
CALCHAS
AGAMEMNON - PROPHET
- leader of the
Achaean forces THETIS
- takes Chryseis as his - ACHILLES’ MOTHER
prize
ZEUS
ACHILLES - KING OF THE GODS
- Achaeans’ greatest
warrior
- claims Briseis

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 Paris (trojan) and
Menelaus (Greek) PATROCLUS
- ACHILLES’ BEST FRIEND
Hector (trojan) and
Ajax (greek) Hector
- Kills Patroclus
- Perform duels with
each other Hephaestus
- Forges new armor for
DIOMEDES AND achilles
ODYSSEUS
- yields information XANTHUS
about the Trojans’ - GOD OF THE RIVER
plans
King Priam
nestor - Hector’s father and the
- PROPOSES A PLAN ruler of Troy
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