the iliad - ualberta.ca
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The Iliad
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Background
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Atlas = PleionePrometheusEpimetheus
Gaia (Earth)
Uranus (Heaven)
Iapetus (Titan) = Clymene
Oceanus = Tethys
Themis Pluto
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The Pleiades
Alcyone Merope Celaeno Electra
Sterope Taygete Maia
Atlas = Pleione
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• The same Harmonia who, in another tradition, is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. She married Cadmus, King of Thebes.
• Iasion loved Demeter, killed by Zeus• Dardanus fled Arcadia and settled in Phrygia• The Trojans call themselves ‘Dardans’
Zeus = Electra
Iasion Dardanus Harmonia
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Hellas and the Troad
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Dardanus settled in Phrygia
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Bateia = Dardanus
Ilus Erichthonius = Astyoche
• Tros called the country Troy• Ganymede, the most beautiful of mortals
• Taken to heaven by Zeus
• Zeus gave Tros divine horses to compensate
Tros = Calirrhoe
Ganymede Cleopatra IlusAssaracus
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Zeus pursuing GanymedesPenthisilea Painter ca 450 BC
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The Rape of GanymedeDamiano Mazza 1575
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Tros = Calirrhoe
= EurydiceCleopatra IlusAssaracus
• Ilus founded the city of Ilium (Troy)• The Palladium fell from heaven to his tent
• The sacred statue of Pallas, Athena’s childhood friend whom Athena herself accidentally killed
• Thrown from heaven when defiled by Electra
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• Ilus was succeeded by Laomedon• Capys had a son, Anchises• Aphrodite had Aeneas by Anchises
Tros = Calirrhoe
Laomedon
= EurydiceCleopatra IlusAssaracus
Capys
Anchises = Aphrodite
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• Tithonus:• Was loved by Dawn and they moved the Ethiopia.
• Tithonus asked for eternal life, but forgot to ask for release from aging
Laomedon = Strymo
Astyoche Podarces
Tithonus Lampus Hesione
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Louis-Jean-Francois LagreneeAurora’s Departure
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Tithonus and AuroraJulien Simon ca. 1800
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tithonus
• Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?
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• Troy was attacked by Heracles to claim Hesione• Laomedon and all his sons but Podarces killed• Hesione ransomed Podarces• He comes to the throne as Priam
Laomedon = Strymo
Astyoche Podarces (Priam)
Tithonus Lampus Hesione
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• Paris:• Hecuba given an oracle: her second son will be the
ruin of his own country• Priam sent the baby to be exposed on Mt. Ida• Paris raised there by shepherds
• Cassandra:• Pursued by Apollo• Powers of prophecy, but no one would believe her
Priam = Hecuba
Hector Paris/Alexander
Cassandra
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The Achaeans
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The Apple of Discord
• Peleus• King of Pthiotis• Married Thetis (a goddess)• The gods invited to wedding• Discord uninvited• Apple: “For the most beautiful”
• The Godesses:• Hera, Aphrodite and Athena all claim apple.
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Phthiotis
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The Judgment of Paris
Paris of Troy chosen as judgeGoddesses attempt to bribe him:
• Hera:• Dominion over Asia
• Athena• Victory in War
• Aphrodite• Helen, the most beautiful mortal
• Paris chose Aphrodite
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The Judgment of ParisAttic black figure
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Luca Giordanno
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‘The Judgment of Paris’Jacques-Clement Wagrez
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Helen of Troy
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Helen of Troy
Rubens
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The ‘Abduction’• Paris’ true identity discovered:
• Games held in Ilium• Shepherd boy wins all of the contests• Cassandra declares the truth
• Paris sent on a trade mission to Sparta• Either, Paris abducted Helen• Or, Helen was tricked by Aphrodite
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Whither Helen?
• Paris and Helen took a substantial treasure with them
• Put in at Phoenicia and Egypt• According to Homer, Helen went to Troy with Paris• According to others, Helen stayed in Egypt with her
money
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War
• Oath of Tyndarius• Former suitors bound by oath to protect the
marriage
• Agamemnon• Most powerful king• Bound to defend his brother
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Aulis
• Fleet assembles at Aulis• Dead calm prevents sailing
• (or a storm)
• Calchas consulted:• Artemis is angry over the oath• Only the sacrifice of Iphigenia will make her happy
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Aulis
Aulis
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Iphigeneia
• Agamemnon:• Vowed to sacrifice the most beautiful thing produced in his realm that year
• Iphigeneia:• Born to Clytemnestra by Agamemnon that year• Or, born to Helen by Theseus, raised by Clytemnestra
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Sacrifice of IphigeniaFrancois Perrierca. 1640
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Giovanni Battista
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Iphigeneia
• Just as Agamemnon was about to strike…• Artemis snatched Iphigeneia from the altar
putting a deer in her place• But the winds came back, and the fleet
sailed
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Progress of the War
• Nine years at Troy… or nine in total?• Battles on the side…• Greeks attack Thebe in Cilicia, kill Eetion, king of
Thebe and father of Andromache, wife of Hector.• Also take Lyrnessus, a nearby town
• Briseis captured and given to Achilles
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Homer
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Legacy
• Iliad:– Story of the dispute between Agamemnon and Achilles – “Sing to me oh Muses the wrath of Achilles…”
• Odyssey:– Story of Odysseus’ ten year voyage home from Troy.
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Legacy
• Defined “Greekness”– Hesiod and Homer gave the Greeks their conception
of the gods (Hdt. ii.53)• Foundational texts of Greek culture• Similar to the Bible:
– Basis for cultural and religious instruction– Common reference
• Earliest epics in Western world– Still regarded amongst the greatest works of
literature
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Who Was Homer?
• Lived ca 1050- ca 850 BC• Nineteen birthplaces• Most Likely:
– Lived ca 850 BC– From Ionia (Chios)– Composed (collected) the works as songs – A single epithet representing a number of unknowable sources
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Iliad
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Book One
• A Plague on the Greeks [8 - 52]• Assembly [53 - 303]
• The enmity between Achilles and Agamemnon is evident.
• Exchange of the Captives [304 - 488]• Thetis Beseeches Zeus [488 - 611]
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Benjamin West‘Chryseis returned to her father’
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Chryseis Returned
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Jacques-Louis David
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Briseis
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Book Two
• Zeus Sends a Lie [1 - 83]• Assembly [84 - 393]• Agamemnon's Breakfast [394 - 493] • Catalogue of the Ships [494 - 785]
• Why name every hero and every city?• Identity.
• Catalogue of the Trojans and Allies [786 - 877]
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Book Three & Four
• A Challenge to Duel [3.1 - 120]• Helen Names the Captains [3.121 - 244]• Oaths and Single Combat [3.245 - 382]
• The character of Paris revealed.
• Helen and Paris (Alexander) [3.383 - 461] • The Oaths Violated [4.1 - 219]• Agamemnon Rallies the Captains [4.220 - 421] • First Battle [4.422 - 544]
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The Aristeia of DiomedesBook Five• Diomedes Leads the Charge [1 - 94]• Athena Gives Diomedes Divine Sight [95 - 165]• Aeneas Fights Diomedes [166 - 329]• Aphrodite and Apollo [330 - 459]• Battle [460 - 698]• Athena and Hera Intervene [699 - 909]
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Venus Wounded
by Diomedes
Joseph-Marie Vien
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Book Six
• Battle: [1 - 118]• Diomedes and Glaucus [119 - 236]
• The Famous exchange of armour
• Hector and Hecuba [237 - 311]• Hector and Paris [312 - 368]• Hector and Andromache [369 - 529]
• The only positive male-female relationship
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Hector admonishes
Paris
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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1751-1829
Hector and Andromache
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Book Seven
• Hector and Paris rejoin the battle [1 – 91]• Hector and Ajax in single combat [92 - 312]
• Indecisive
• Agamemnon’s Feast [313 – 344]• The truce; the Achaeans build the wall [345 – 420]
• Indication of recent arrival?
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Books Eight to Fifteen
• Zeus orders the gods and goddesses to stay out of the war.• Without their help, and without Achilles, the Achaeans are
pushed back to the wall.• The Trojans finally breach the wall and the battle rages around
the ships.
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Books Sixteen and Seventeen
• Achilles gives his armour to Patroclus• Patroclus is killed by Hector.• Hector strips the body of armour, but the Achaeans are able to
recover the body
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Books Eighteenand Nineteen
• The body of Patroclus• Thetis brings new armour
for Achilles• Achilles re-enters the war.
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Thetis brings new armor to
AchillesBenjamin West
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• Thetis brings new Armour to Achilles
• Benjamin West
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Books Twenty to Twenty-two
• The wrath of Achilles• The gods joint the battle• Achilles and Hector in single combat• The death of Hector.
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Achilles slays Hector
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Achilles slays Hector
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The Triumph of AchillesFranz Matsch 1892
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• Achilles kept the body of Hector in his tent• Priam snuck into the Greek camp to beg for his
sons body
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Priam beseeches Achilles
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The Trojan Horse
• Achilles:• Defeats Penthesileia and Memnon• Is killed by Paris
• Paris• Killed by Philoctetes
• Odysseus• Guided by Athena• Devises the plot of the Trojan Horse
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The Trojan Horse
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Beware Greeks bearing gifts
Laocoon and his Sons
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The Sack of Ilium
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Troy
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Troy Today
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Troy
• Occupied from ca. 3000 BC• Troy VI developed ca. 1700• Earthquake ca. 1350• Troy VII burned ca. 1200 BC• Ancients dated the Trojan war to 1184/2 BC
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Aeneas
• The Trojan Achilles• Survived the sack of the city• Held out on Mt. Ida• Finally surrendered under terms• Took his family and emigrated
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Aeneas