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Chapter 20, Lecture One

Chapter 20, Lecture One. The Fall of Troy. The Greeks at Troy. The Judgment of the Arms of Achilles. Arms of Achilles. The race of warrior women arrive to help the Trojans Achilles kills their leader, Penthesilea, at the very moment he falls in love with her.

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Chapter 20, Lecture One

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  1. Chapter 20, Lecture One The Fall of Troy

  2. The Greeks at Troy The Judgment of the Arms of Achilles

  3. Arms of Achilles • The race of warrior women arrive to help the Trojans • Achilles kills their leader, Penthesilea, at the very moment he falls in love with her. • Thersites mocks Achilles and is killed

  4. Arms of Achilles • Achilles killed by Paris (with Apollo’s help) • His armor awarded to Odysseus by some trickery – not Ajax • Ajax, humiliated, kills himself

  5. The Trojan Horse

  6. The Trojan Horse • New conditions for Troy’s fall • Neoptolemus must come into the battle • The Palladium must be stolen from Troy • The powerful bow and arrows of Heracles must be brought to the battle – must bring Philoctetes, who has them. • Still Troy won’t fall

  7. The Trojan Horse • Oydsseus conceives the idea of the horse • Epeus • Tenedos • Sinon • Laocoon • The conflicting memories of Menelaüs and Helen about the horse (Odyssey)

  8. The Fall of Troy

  9. The Fall of Troy • Many outrages committed by the Greeks during the sack • Priam murdered by Neoptolemus at the altar of Zeus • Hector’s son, Astyanax • The Locrian, Ajax the Lesser, and Cassandra • Polyxena

  10. The Fall of Troy • Menelaüs nearly kills Helen in anger, but relents • The ancestor of Rome, Aeneas, escapes • Anchises and Ascanius

  11. End

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