The Trojan War / Odysseus

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The Trojan War / Odysseus

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Judgment of Paris

• An important feast was taking place at the home
  of the gods and goddesses, Mount Olympus.
• The evil goddess of Discord, Eris, was angry that
  she was not invited, so she decided to make
  trouble.
• She threw a golden apple into the crowd. On the
  apple were the words For the Fairest.

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for the fairest
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• All of the goddesses wanted the apple because
  each believed that she was the fairest.
• The choices were narrowed down to three
  Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena.
• The three goddesses asked Zeus to decide which
  one of them should get the apple, but he refused
  to have anything to do with the matter.

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Athena
Zeus
Aphrodite
Hera
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• Zeus told the three goddesses to go to Mount Ida,
  near Troy, where they would find the young prince
  Paris. Zeus said that he was an excellent judge
  of beauty.
• Paris was a prince, but was doing shepherds work
  outside of Troy because his father, King Priam
  was warned that Paris would one day be the ruin
  of his country.

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• Paris was surprise when he saw the three
  goddesses.
• The goddesses each offered Paris a bribe to
  convince him that they deserved the apple.
• Hera promised to make Paris Lord of Europe and
  Asia.
• Athena promised he would lead the Trojans to
  victory against the Greeks.
• Aphrodite promised Paris that the fairest woman
  in all the world would be his.

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• Paris chose Aphrodite

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• The fairest woman in the world was Helen. Every
  young prince in Greece wanted to marry her.
  However, Helen was already married to Menelaus
  (king of Sparta), brother of Agamemnon (commander
  in chief of Greek forces).

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• Paris traveled to Sparta and was greeted
  graciously by Helen and Menelaus.
• Trusting Paris completely, Menelaus left Paris in
  his home and traveled alone to Crete.
• When Menelaus returned from Crete, his wife was
  gone.
• Menelaus called upon all the men of Greece to
  help him get Helen back.

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• Odysseus did not want to leave his home to join
  the Army and retrieve Helen.
• He pretended that he had gone mad when a
  messenger arrived, he was plowing a field and
  sewing it with salt instead of seed.
• The messenger put Odysseus son in the direct
  path of the plow. When Odysseus stopped the
  plow, it was proven that Odysseus was not crazy,
  and he was forced to join the Army.

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• A thousand ships carried the Greek Army to Troy.
  
• The war went on for ten years.
• Neither side was able to win victory over the
  other.
• Both sides lost many great warriors.
• The Greeks knew that they could not defeat the
  Trojans by force they would have to find a way
  to take Troy by surprise.

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Achilles
Hector
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• Odysseus came up with a plan to build a giant
  wooden horse which was hollow and so big that it
  could hold a number of men.
• Several of the Greek warriors, including Odysseus
  hid inside the giant horse.
• The Trojans were afraid to destroy the horse
  because they thought the gods would punish them
  for destroying a gift, so they pulled the horse
  into the city.

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• In the middle of the night, the Greeks snuck out
  of the horse and into the city streets of Troy.
• They burned the citys buildings to the ground
  and killed the men as they left their burning
  homes.
• The Greeks had won.

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• The Greeks went mad with victory the night they
  defeated the Trojans. They forgot what was due
  to the gods, and on their voyage home, they were
  terribly punished.
• The Odyssey is the story of one
  soldier--Odysseus, a smart Greek--and his return
  home from war, a journey that lasts more than
  twenty years.

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