By: Lindsay Toub, Natasha Lear & Kyle Stanshine

The Trojan War & The Fall of Troy

Aphrodite (Goddess of Love)

3 Goddesses

Hera (Goddess of Marriage)Pallas Athena (Goddess

of War)

The Dispute

The 3 goddesses asked Zeus who was the most beautiful

Zeus refused to answer and sent them to Paris

The 3 Goddesses gave offers to Paris until he chose 1 goddess:Hera

Promised to make him lord of Europe, and Asia

AthenaPromised he would lead the Trojans to

victory and leave Greece in ruinsAphrodite

Promised the fairest woman in all the world would be his

Paris

The DecisionParis chose Aphrodite's offer, and he would receive

the fairest woman in the worldHelen, Zeus’s daughter

However, Helen was already married to Menelaus, the king of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon

Menelaus went to find Helen and called upon all of Greece to help him

The Trojan War started and lasted for 10 years

HeraAthena

Poseidon (God of Sea)Agamemnon

Menelaus

ParisAphrodite

Ares (God of War)Apollo

ArtemisHectorZeus

The Greeks versus The Trojans

The war could of ended here, but Hera and Athena wanted to ruin Troy.

Athena ordered a Trojan to shoot at Menelaus and the battle begins with everyone.

Paris and Menelaus would fight it out alone for Helen.

The War Continues

Agamemnon wanted to sail home

Hera had her plansShe would talk to Zeus in

hopes that he couldn’t resist her

Zeus fell for it, and the battle turned in favor of the Greeks

Hector felt that he could not be killed, until he is found lying in the plains where Zeus finds himHera is blamed

At Hector’s funeral, it is described that the Illiad ends

The Fall of Troy

With Hector dead, Achilles knew he would die soon because his mother had predicted it His last battle was against the

King of Ethiopia, and when he is killed his body is carried out by Ajax

Ajax wanted to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus for turning the vote against him The 3 men as well as Odysseus

fought over Achilles body parts Greece started to feel

depressed by all the deaths that were occurring Troy couldn’t fall until they were

fought against with bow and arrow of Hercules

Taking the bow and arrowsHercules died by Prince PhilocetesOdysseus, other Neoptolemus aka

Pyrrhus (the young of Achilles) took the bow/arrows

Paris was wounded by it and wanted to go to Oenone , a nymph who was with him before he met the three goddessShe knew a drug that could help himHe always forgot about her and therefore she

didn’t help himHe died and she later killed herself

False security

***Although Troy had lost Paris it was okay because as long as they had Palladium, Troy couldn’t be taken

10 years past and troy was as strong as ever. The Greeks came up with the plan to make a wooden horse… the others stayed people of Greeks near the island so they could sail home

The Trojans had false security when they heard only silence and all but one of the Greek ships were gone.

Greece wins

Priest Laocoon feared the horse because it had come from Greece

The Greeks hoped the Trojans would try to destroy it causing Athena’s anger upon themThey brought it to the temple

of Athena and in the middle of the night everyone returned to their houses

Aphrodite was the only god who helped a Trojan. She helped Helen and gave her to Menelaus, they sailed to Greece

Troy was gone, Greece ships awaited.