1. What in the World ???
The Odyssey of Homer

2. The Mycenaeans (Achaeans)
BCE

3. The Mycenaean World: mid-2M B.C.E.

4. Mycenae Citadel & Reconstuction

5. Approach to the Lion’s Gate

6. Mycenaean Writing System: “Linear B”

7. The
Trojan
War
mid-12c BCE

8. Bronze Age Enemies: The Trojan War

9. What were the real & mythical causes of the Trojan War??

10. Helen of Troy: “The Face That Launched 1000 Ships”
What did she look like?

11. Trojan War The Myth Judgment of Paris Elopement of Paris and Helen
Achaean Revenge
10 years of War
Achilles and Agamemnon
Patroclus
Achilles Heel

12. Trojan War The Myth Continued
Trojan Horse
Aftermath
Agamemnon
Aeneas
Odysseus

13. Trojan War The Reality Geopolitical Greece: Mycenaean
Asia Minor: Hittite
Troy major city on key trade routes
City of Troy destroyed C 1200 BCE

14. Plan of the City of Troy

15. Wall of Troy Recreated

16. Original Wall of the City of Troy

18. The
Greek
"Dark Ages"
BCE

19. Migrations in the Aegean Region
(DORIANS}

20. Greek Culture Declined

21. Aegean Dark Age Every Major City from Greece to Gaza Falls
Multiple Possible Causes
Lasted for 400 years: BCE
No Cities, Writing, Little Commerce

22. Homer, the Blind Poet

23. Homer’s Great Epics

24. The Heroic Age
Troy was conquered around 1200 CE just before the start of the Mediterranean Dark Age
The Homeric epics about the Trojan War and its aftermath were passed down by oral tradition for hundreds of years before being transcribed and many more before being reaching their present form
Little is known about Homer himself, except that if he existed, he lived in what is today Turkey and was blind
The Iliad and the Odyssey represent the culmination of a long tradition of oral history
The two epics represent a national symbol of present-day Greece

25. Invention of the Alphabet
Phoenician’s Early Phonemic Script C 1050 BCE
Greeks added Vowels C 800 BCE

26. Greek Alphabet

27. Journey of Odysseus??

28. Thanks to Susan Pojer pptpalooza.com