1. The Iliad Part I to The Odyssey

2. Author???  Homer - Minstrel, bard, singer - Multiple people - Legend  Not really a person, the “Ideal” bard  Bard = singer  Ideal wandering class of rhapsodies  Rhapsodies = “Stitchers of Songs”

3. Iliad – What It’s About…  The war between the Greeks and the Trojans  Greece and Troy have ALWAYS hated each other - Yankees vs. Sox  Greeks = Greece  Trojans = Troy = what is now Turkey  For a long time, people thought Troy didn’t exist  A wealthy German man found the ruins of Troy using The Iliad as a road map

4. Word Meanings  Mediterranean Sea - Medi (middle) - Terrain (world)  Greeks thought the sea was the whole world – it was all they could see  Iliad, in Greek language, means Troy  Iliad, in Latin language, means City

5. About the Locations  Greece has many cities & villages, similar to boroughs of NYC  Troy is one city in a large country that is thought of as Troy as well  Greece (country) is smaller than Troy (country) GreeceTroy

6. Leadership  Troy has a singular monarch - One place, one royal king, one royal family  Greece has many war lords, call themselves kings - Not royal, one for each city  Greece has major war lord that rules everything - King Agamemnon, not royal

7. Two Sides…  Greece - War Lord (King) Menelaus, married to Helen  Helen = Perfect Beauty  Troy – King Priam (royal), two sons: Hector and Paris  Hector, older, noble, honorable  Paris, younger, naïve, blindly bold