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FINAL Fall of Troy

The document summarizes key events in the latter part of the Trojan War and aftermath. It describes the death of Achilles at the hands of Paris, the dispute over Achilles' armor between Odysseus and Ajax, Ajax's madness and suicide, the Greeks consulting a prophet for advice, capturing Philoctetes and using his bow and arrows to kill Paris. It then details the Greeks' theft of the Palladium, their construction of the Trojan Horse, the Greeks emerging from the horse and sacking Troy, and the fates of the surviving Trojans. It concludes with the difficult homecomings faced by the Greek heroes like Odysseus as they faced storms, monsters and challenges in returning home after the war.

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FINAL Fall of Troy

The document summarizes key events in the latter part of the Trojan War and aftermath. It describes the death of Achilles at the hands of Paris, the dispute over Achilles' armor between Odysseus and Ajax, Ajax's madness and suicide, the Greeks consulting a prophet for advice, capturing Philoctetes and using his bow and arrows to kill Paris. It then details the Greeks' theft of the Palladium, their construction of the Trojan Horse, the Greeks emerging from the horse and sacking Troy, and the fates of the surviving Trojans. It concludes with the difficult homecomings faced by the Greek heroes like Odysseus as they faced storms, monsters and challenges in returning home after the war.

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The Beginning

 begins after the


funeral of hector
 Achilles knew
he would die not
for longer
 Prince Memnon
and his army
come to help
troy
The Death of Achilles
 great battle between
achilles and menon
 menon is killed
 achilles drives trojan
alongside wall of troy
 Paris shoots arrow at
him
 apollo guides it towads
his heel
 apollo guides it towads
his heel
The Death of Ajax
 Argument of the armor of
Achilles
 Ajax vs Odysseus?
 Odysseus wins, bringing him
honor
 Ajax plans the death of Odysseus
The Death of Ajax
 Athena strikes Ajax with madness
 Accidentally kills the herd and cattle
 Ties up and beats a large ram
 Becomes sane again, commits
suicide
 Only buried by Greeks, no funeral
pyre
What can the Greeks do now?
 Discouraged after two important
deaths
 Prophet Calchas tells them to go to
Helenus
 Odysseus captured him, and is told
one must fight with the bow and
arrows of Hercules
 Philoctetes had the bow and arrows
 Earlier abandoned by the Greeks
after bitten by a serpent
 Odysseus and others went to
Philoctetes
 Upon returning, a physician heals
him
 Immediately kills paris
The Palladium
 The only reason Troy could not be
taken
 Odysseus and Diomedes plan to
take it
 Diomedes climbs walls, find it, takes
it back to camp
 Final plan of the wooden horse
The Wooden Horse
 Greek camp empty, ships gone
 Trojans believe they surrendered
 Final Greek, Sinon, wishes to not be
a “Greek” anymore
 Supposed “sacrifice for Athena”
 Horse was an offering to Athena
The Wooden Horse
 Confusion among trojans
 Laocoon and his sons were the
only opposition
 “I fear the Greeks even when they
bear gifts”
 Two serpents appeared from the
sea
 Horse finally passed through gates
 In the middle of the night, the
men began their plan
 They all come out of the horse
 Wreak havoc on the city
The Wooden Horse
Final Fight
 Many fires started throughout city
 Savage fighting
 Killing their own
 Aphrodite: only god to help any
trojans that day
 Helped Aeneas and his family
The Fall of Troy
Helen of Troy

 Aphrodite helped Helen


out of the city
 Took her to Menelaus
 Willingly took her in
Final Outcome
 Most men are killed
 Women and children
separated
 Hector’s son, Astyanax
 Some enslaved
 Only ruins of city left
Returning home

 After the fall of Troy, the surviving heroes and


their troops have little chance to enjoy their
victory.
 The gods are angry because many Greeks
committed sacrilegious atrocities during the
sacking of Troy.
 Few Greeks reach their homes easily, or live to
enjoy their return.
Mediterranean Sea
 He (Odysseus) is
forced to travel to
the furthest reaches
of the
Mediterranean Sea,
tormented by the
sea god Poseidon.
 He is waylaid by storms, shipwreck and
a colourful crowd of strange beings and
treacherous people, from the one-eyed
giant Cyclops to the Sirens with their
mesmerising song.
 Odysseus finally reaches his homeland,
only to find his house besieged by suitors
for the hand of his wife who had thought
he would not survive his voyage.
 Yet after 10 years at sea,
Odysseus also overcomes this
final challenge.
 He kills the suitors and is
reunited with his faithful
wife, Penelope.
Mediterranean Sea

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