1. Museum Entrance Welcome to the Lobby The Judgement of Paris The Trojan War The Gods and heroes of the War The Fall of Troy We’re Going Greek Ya’ll! Map of Ancient Greece and Troy Map of Ancient Greece and Troy Greek Gods of JOY!

2. Name of Museum Map of Ancient Greece and Troy Add biographical statement here Back to Lobby Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Lindsey Warneka under the direction of Dr. Christy Keeler during a Teaching American History grant module. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.Keith Valley Middle School Dr. Christy KeelerEducational Virtual Museums Facts to know about the Greek Leaders: King Menelaus was king of Sparta. King Agamemnon was king of Mycenae. Odysseus was king of Ithaca. Achilles lived on Phthia. Facts to know about Trojan Leaders: King Priam is king of Troy. His 2 of many sons, Paris and Hektor, were Heroes of the Trojan War. Priam’s wife’s name is Queen Hecabe.

3. Name of Museum Room 1 Title Ticked off Goddess The Competition Stupid Man

4. Name of Museum Room 2 Title Freaking Women Getting Back Up The gist of it All

5. Name of Museum Room 3 Title The Fall of Paris A Clever Idea The end of Troy

6. Name of Museum Room 4 Title The Gods Divided Heroes for Troy Heroes For Greece

7. Name of Museum Zeus: Supreme ruler of the gods and resides on Mount Olympus; he killed his own father to become the ruler. His weapon is the lightening bolt. He is also a huge ladies man. Hera: Zeus’s wife and sister (yep you read that right). She was the protector of marriage (ironic because Zeus cheated on her ALL the time). Poseidon: Zeus’s brother a ruler of the ocean and sea. He is second only to Zeus and his weapon is the trident! Hades: the black sheep brother to Zeus and Poseidon. He is the ruler of the Greek underworld. He had a cap that made people invisible who wore it. No one really like him so he rarely visited Mouth Olympus. His wife is Persephone (who he stole and made Queen of the Underworld) Athena: She is the daughter of Zeus alone. Zeus got a headache one day and she popped out of his head fully grown and fully armed! She is the goddess of the city but was a great warrior during the Trojan War. She is Zeus’s favorite and only she gets to use his thunderbolt. Apollo: Son of Zeus and Leto. God of light and truth, he plays a lyre and carries a great silver bow. Artemis (Diana): Apollo’s twin sister. She was the Lady of Wild Things, a great huntsman. All animals were sacred to her, especially the deer. Aphrodite: Goddess of love and beauty. She is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. She married Hephaestus (who was lame and considered ugly) Hermes: Zeus’s messenger. He has wings on his shoes and on his hat. Ares: The god of war. He is the son of Zeus and Hera, who both hated him because he was bloody and murderous. Not surprisingly his bird is the vulture! Hephaestus: the god of forge and fire. He made all the weapons of the gods, including Zeus’s thunderbolt. He is also the son of Zeus and Hera though Zeus refuses to accept him. He is also known as the only unattractive Olympian god. His wife, however, is the hottie Aphrodite. Hestia: the goddess of the hearth and home. She is Zeus’s sister and like Athena and Artemis, she is also a virgin goddess. Greek Gods of JOY! There are 12 Olympian Gods, many of whom were divided on who should win the war: Back to Room 1

8. Name of Museum So the whole thing started when the evil goddess Eris (discord) got mad that she was not invited to a banquet. No one liked her so no one invited her. To get even, she basically crashed the wedding of Thetis, a sea nymph, and King Peleus. She threw a golden apple into the middle of the wedding party and marked on it For the Fairest. All the goddesses wanted it but it was narrowed down to 3: Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. They asked Zeus to decide but that would mean him having to choose between his wife and his 2 daughters. Being a smart man, he elected someone else to choose the fairest. Ticked off goddess Back to Room 1

9. Name of Museum So Zeus decided that Paris, Prince of Troy, would be the judge of which goddess was the fairest. Zeus found Paris doing shephards work instead of in Troy with his family. He was living it up with the nymph Oenone. The goddesses appeared before Paris and presented him with 3 different bribes to help convince him to choose them. Athena offered him that he would lead the Trojans to victory against the Greeks and that Greece would lay in ruins. Hera offered to make him lord over all of Europe and Asia. Aphrodite promised him the hottest woman in all the world… The competition Back to Room 1

10. Name of Museum So the stupid man chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess so that he could get the hottest woman alive!!! Thus, the fall of his father’s kingdom (Troy) began! STUPID MAN!!! This is thought to be the real reason the war began…basically a beauty pageant caused it all. Stupid Man Back to Room 1

11. Name of Museum The hottest woman alive was Helen. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leda. Every man in Greece wanted to marry her but her step father, King Tyndareus, chose Menelaus as her husband and made him king of Sparta. Menelaus received Paris into his home as a guest and what do you know, Paris stole away with Helen. Dishonored, Menelaus was really upset and called on all the leaders of Greece to go with him to Troy and make war upon the Trojan people. Freaking Women! Insert Artifact Picture Here Back to Room 2

12. Name of Museum Two warriors that Agamemnon really wanted with him were King Odysseus of Ithaca and Achilles, son of the sea nymph Thetis. Neither of them wanted to go to war though. Odysseus did not want to leave his wife and son to go to war over another man’s wife, so he pretended to be crazy when the Greeks came to recruit him. He was plowing a field and was sewing it with salt instead of seeds (making him look loco). But the Greek messengers placed his son in front of the plow to prove that he was not crazy. At the last minute, Odysseus turned the plow. Off to war he went. Achilles was kept back from the war by his mother because she knew that if he went to war that he was fated to die there. So she dressed him up as a woman and hid him amongst the maidens. However, when they all went to town, the Greek messenger caught Achilles checking out some armor. Odysseus knew it was him then and outed him to the Greeks. Off to war he went too! Having their 2 warriors, their aces in the whole, the Greeks gathered together 1000 ships and headed off to Troy, to war. Getting Back Up Insert Artifact Picture Here Back to Room 2

13. Name of Museum Landing on the Island of Troy, the Greeks attacked. Protesilaus was the first Greek on the Trojan shores and he was the first to die in the war, earning him a place of honor. The blood shed has begun. For 9 years they fought and the one day, Agamemnon got cocky. He stole Chryseis, the daughter of one of Apollo’s priests. This ticked off Apollo and he decided to rain down arrows on the Greeks, which helped out Troy. Achilles went to Agamemnon and told him they couldn’t fight both Apollo’s wrath AND the Trojans and to give the girl back. Agamemnon agreed but not before taking Achilles woman Briseis. This made Achilles mad and he decided to stop fighting for the Greeks until his honor had been restored. So the Trojans started winning the war. And, even though Agamemnon gave Achilles the girl back, as well as lots of gold and riches the Greeks had obtained during the war, Achilles refused to fight. It was during this time that Paris and Menelaus had a duel for Helen. Menelaus was about to kill Paris when Aphrodite flew in and rescued him. Menelaus declared victory and the Trojans agreed to give Helen back. BUT, freaking Hera did not want the war to end until Troy was in ruins. So she sent Athena to make one of the Trojan soldiers shoot an arrow into the peaceful Greek army, thus starting up the fighting again. Achilles still refused to fight and the hero of Troy, Prince Hector, wreacked havoc on the Greek army. Agamemnon made a last ditch effort to get Achilles to fight but he still said no. In his place though, Achilles’ companion and cousin fought in his place wearing Achilles’s armor. But the mighty Hector killed Patroclus and took the armor of Achilles for himself. This is what finally got Achilles back in the war. Upon hearing of his companion’s death, Achilles challenged Hector to a battle. Achilles’s mom, Thetis, had Hephaestus make him some new armor. The battle was bloody and Achilles killed the great Trojan Hero, Hector. He then really ticked people off by hooking Hector’s body, at the ankles, to his chariot and dragged it around the walls of Troy, face down, defiling the Prince’s body. He then took the body back to the Greek camps instead of giving it back to King Priam of Troy. Late that night, King Priam visited Achilles and begged for the body of his son back. Humbled, Achilles gave Hector back to his father and promised 9 days of peace so they could give him a proper funeral. The Gist of it All! Back to Room 2

14. Name of Museum Before meeting his own death, Paris has one great feat to his name. Achilles had one weakness. This mother Thetis meant to make him immortal, so she took him to the River Styxx and dipped him in! But she did not remember to dip his ankle in the river where she was holding him. So that one part of his body was vulnerable. After killing Hector and other Trojan heroes, like King Memnon of Ethiopia, Paris shot and arrow into his ankle and mortally wounded him. After his death, Thetis promised his arms to Odysseus. This ticked off the Greek hero Ajax, who went off the deep end and led to his own death. Paris was late wounded and when his former love Oenone took him to beg the goddess Hera for his life; she refused and Paris died. Oenone took her own life. The Fall of Heroes Back to Room 3

15. Name of Museum With pretty much all the heroes dead and still no winner, the Greeks decided that the only way they would ever win the war would be to get inside the walls of Troy…the impenetrable walls of Troy! But Odysseus, known for his clever mind and his tricky ways, devised a way to get inside the wall of Troy. They built a giant, hollow wooden horse and then hid inside of it. They told the rest of the Greek army to hide and make it appear that they had left Troy. The plan worked flawlessly. The Trojans flocked to the beach to see where all the epic battles had been fought. It was there they spied the large wooden horse. People were divided on what the horse meant. The priest Laocoon said it was a bad omen and to burn it. However, 2 giant snakes came from the sea and dragged him into it. The people of Troy thought that he had defied the gods so they decided to take the horse into the walls of Troy. A Clever Idea Back to Room 3

16. Name of Museum Believing the war had ended and that the gods rewarded them with a giant wooden horse (I mean, really!), the Trojans partied it up all night and then fell asleep. Little did they know that they had let the enemy into their home! In the middle of the night, when the Trojans were asleep, the belly of the wooden horse opened and the Greek warriors filed out. They opened the gates of Troy and let in the rest of the hiding Greek army and then proceeded to burn down Troy. The Greek fighters slaughtered the Trojans in their sleep. By morning, all but 1 Trojan warrior was dead. Aeneas, Aphrodite’s son, survived with the help of Aphrodite. She also helped to save Helen and return her to Menelaus, who accepted her back gladly. All that was left were the women and children, Hector’s wife, mother, and son among them. The Greeks captured them and threw Hector’s son, Astyanax, from the walls of Troy. They made slaves of the women and took them away from Troy forever. Gotta love those Greeks! The Fall of Troy Back to Room 3

17. Name of Museum The gods themselves were divided on who they wanted to win the war, Greece or Troy. Aphrodite was on the side of Paris since he chose her as the fairest. But on the flip side, Hera and Athena were against him because he didn’t choose wither of them. Ares always sided with Aphrodite where as Poseidon sided with the Greeks since they were people of the sea. Apollo cared for Hector and thus supported the Trojans which meant his twin sister Artemis supported them too. Zeus, however, refused to choose a side. He like the Trojans the best but there was no way he was going to side against his wife, Hera. The Gods Divided Back to Room 4

18. Name of Museum Hector was the main hero for Troy. He was accompanied by the god of war himelf, Ares. Together they left a trail of blood. His wife is Andromache, who begs Hector not to go and fight in the war for fear the Achilles will kill him like he did her entire family. Hector also has a son, Astyanax, who is later killed by the Greeks. Hector’s greatest feat, and ultimately worst, was when he killed Patroclus, the companion of Achilles. The death of Patroculs is what led to Hector’s death. Hero of Troy Insert Artifact Picture Here Back to Room 4

19. Name of Museum Achilles was the number 1 hero for the Greeks. He was the son of a goddess so it was pretty hard to kill him. He was captain of the Myrmidons, Achilles’s own killing force. He is renowned for the killing the hero of Troy, Hector. Ajax is also a hero for Troy. He stepped up to the plate to kill kill kill when Achilles refused to fight for Troy. Of course Odysseus is a hero as well. While he was not the fiercest, it was his idea to build the Trojan Horse…Which of course won the war! Heroes for Greece Insert Artifact Picture Here Back to Room 4