Journey of a Lifetime:

1. Journey of a Lifetime: The Face that Launched a Thousand Years

2. Wedding of Peleus and Thetis • Prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father • Marriage arranged by Juppiter between mortal king and leader of the sea gods called Nereids • All gods invited to attend EXCEPT Eris, the goddess of discord so that the marriage would be a happy one

3. To The Fairest • Eris arrives with a gift of a Golden Apple labeled “To the Fairest” • Juno, Minerva, and Venus compete for the apple • Beauty contest judged by the Trojan Prince Paris

4. Judgement of Paris • Each goddess offers Paris a gift if he chooses her • Juno = king of Europe and Asia • Minerva = wisdom and skill in war • Venus = love of most beautiful woman in the world

5. Revenge of the Goddesses • Athena, patron goddess of Athens, swears vengeance against Paris and Venus • Uses power of War to bring tribulations on people of Troy and Paris • Juno agrees to get her vengeance and waits her turn

6. Amor Omnia Vincit! • Paris chooses Venus so that he will get a beautiful bride • Unfortunately she is married to another man… • While an envoy to Sparta for his father, Paris falls in love with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta • According to agreement, Helen falls in love and runs away to Troy with Paris

7. Face That Launched 1000 Ships • Menalaus calls together his allies to bring back Helen under the leadership of his brother, Agamemnon, King of Mycenae • All ships listed in Book II of Iliad

8. Wrath of Achilles • Achilles is strongest and bravest • Prophecy to live long life unknown or short life as a hero • Mother dips in River Styx by ankles to make invulnerable – ankles are only weak part • Fights on side of Greeks against pleas of mother • Believes that he should get bounty of his choice b/c he is greatest fighter • Sulks and remains in tent until friend Patroclus is killed wearing his armor in batlle • Achilles swears revenge

9. Battle between Greeks and Trojans • Ten years of battle with Greeks on the shore of Troy outside the wall • Achilles (son of Peleus and Thetis) is best of Greek soldiers and Hector, best of Trojan soldiers (son of Priam, king of Troy) agree to fight at last to end the siege and save people from more war.

10. Death of Hector • Achilles defeats Hector in battle • Attaches him behind chariot and drags the body around the walls of the city • Priam sneaks into Greek camp to negotiate retrieval of body of Hector

11. Death of Achilles • Paris gets angry at Achilles and shoots him in the tendon of his ankle with a poisonous arrow • Death of Hector is avenged • Odysseus and Ajax swear revenge against the Trojans for killing their best soldier

12. Trojan Horse • Odysseus build a great horse as a “gift” for the Trojans • Men climb inside and wait • Meanwhile rest of Greeks leave the shore and sail out of sight of Troy

13. Fear the Greeks bearing Gifts • Trojans bring horse inside the city walls to celebrate victory. • Have a large banquet with eating and drinking • Once asleep, the Greeks climb out of horse and open gates of city to the Greeks

14. Destruction of Troy • Greeks kills King and Queen of Troy and children. • Destroy the shrines of the gods, • One man, Aeneas, Trojan prince and son of Venus and Anchises, leads group of people including father and son outside the city as his mother instructs him • Unfortunately he loses his wife along the way

15. The Journey Begins • At the base of Mt. Ida, Achilles gathers the men who have seen the flames of Troy • The ghost of his wife Creusa tells him not to despair because he has a bigger Fate • Aeneas will go to a land where he will marry a queen and start a new civilization

16. Thrace is not the Place • Aeneas sails with his ships to Thrace where he plans to build a city • Once he starts digging the foundation, blood appears from the roots in the ground • He discovers that the site is the burial place of Polydorus, the Trojan prince who was killed by his treacherous hosts • Aeneas decides to move elsewhere to found a city with good auspices

17. Oracle’s Advice • Aeneas sails to Delos to talk with the oracle of Apollo to decide where to found the new city • Oracle tells him to sail to the land of his ancestors • Anchises, his father, reads this to be Crete so the set sail for the island

18. Dreams of Destiny • While at Knossos, the capital of Crete and home of Minotaur, Aeneas has a dream • The household gods (Penates) appear to him and tell him to sail to “Hesperia” • Aeneas and his men set sail again

19. Harpie’s Herald • Aeneas sails by the island of the Harpies • One of the Harpies, Caelano, tells Aeneas that his destination is Italy • Anchises advises him not to linger and keep sailing

20. Trojan Games • Aeneas sails to Actium off the coast of Greece where he holds athletic games in honor of the gods • He affixes a shield to One door that had been taken by the Greeks in the war in order to remember the games

21. Familarities at Buthrotum • Once landing at Buthrotum, Aeneas finds Andromache, the wife of Hector with her new husband Helenus, another Trojan prince • Helenus builds Buthrotum to look like a “little Troy” • Helenus makes a prophecy that Aeneas will know the land he is to settle when he sees a white sow suckling her baby pigs • Here he must wear a purple outfit and make a sacrifice • Andromache gives him a mantle In memory of her dead son Astyanax

22. Italian wanderings • Off the coast of Italy, the men see a Temple to Minerva and the prophecied 4 horses • They sacrifice to Juno as instructed by Helenus • The men can see Mt. Aetna and hear the whirlpool Charybdis • The men are unaware that they are so close to Italy

23. Surprise at Sicily • Once at Sicily they meet a man left on the island by Odysseus • He tells the men of the Cyclopes and how Odysseus tricked the cyclops and put out his eye • Once the cyclops Polyphemus arrives, the men take the stranger on board and sail away from Sicily not knowing how close they are to Italy

24. Juno’s Revenge • Juno decides to get her revenge by asking Aeolus to unleash the winds so that a storm drives Aeneas to Carthage • Juno and Venus plot to have Aeneas fall in love with the queen there • The men surviving the storm land on the shores of Carthage and Aeneas runs into his mother in disguise while hunting

25. Delaying with Dido • Aeneas meets with the queen of Carthage, a refugee herself • Dido offers Aeneas and his men safety and Aeneas the kingship of Carthage if he stays • They fall madly in love but Aeneas neglects his men and remains there a year until forced to move on by his men • Dido commits suicide as Aeneas leaves on a pyre of his belongings

26. Sicilian Games • The refugees sail to Sicily once more where Aeneas holds games in honor of his father Anchises who died there one year earlier • Juno, angry at Aeneas for leaving Dido, makes all of the women go crazy and burn the ships • A prophet advises Aeneas to leave the older people there to found a city but strike out on his own with the younger to fulfill his destiny

27. Cumae Commands • Aeneas sails to Italy and meets the Sybil at Cumae • She tells him to find a golden bough to get to the Underworld • There he is to ask for advice on what to do next

28. Underworld Advice • While in the Underworld, Aeneas meets the following people: Dido, heroes of the Trojan war, Sisyphus, and the spirits of those who would later become important in Rome including his son Silvius by his Latin wife, Romulus, Numa, and Augustus • Anchises tells Aeneas to continue to Latium and Aeneas leaves through the River Lethe

29. Turmoil on The Tiber • Aeneas sails up the Tiber river to Rome where he engages Turnus in war • Turnus is betrothed to Lavinia, but it was prophecied that Lavinia would marry a stranger • Aeneas defeats Turnus and marries Lavinia.

30. Foundation of Roma • Aeneas’ son Ascanius changes his name to Iulus and founds the city of Alba Longa • After several generations, Romulus and Remus are born from the princess of Alba Longa • Their destiny is prophecied and they go on to found the city of Rome.

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