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After The Iliad

After The Iliad. Fall of Troy and Achilleus. While attempting a truce, Achilleus is slain by poison arrow shot by Paris Lots of attempts to defeat Troy Finally: large horse offered as sacrifice to Athena. Trojan Horse.

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After The Iliad

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  1. After The Iliad

  2. Fall of Troy and Achilleus • While attempting a truce, Achilleus is slain by poison arrow shot by Paris • Lots of attempts to defeat Troy • Finally: large horse offered as sacrifice to Athena

  3. Trojan Horse • Greek ships appeared to sail away; really hid behind neighboring island • Greek “prisoner” taken, who told Trojans that Greeks did not want horse to go inside city walls (prophecy that if that happened, Troy would win the war) • Laocoon, a Trojan priest, warned his people, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” He was killed by a sea serpent and everyone took it as a sign to keep the horse. • They took it in. Armed men came out at night and sacked the city from within.

  4. Menelaus and Helen • Return to Sparta and live out their days as a happily married couple

  5. Agamemnon • Wife Clytemnestra had an affair with Aegisthus, and when Agamemnon returned, they murdered him • Orestes (Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son) rescued from a similar fate and brought up elsewhere • He returned to avenge his father’s death, and, with the help of his sister Elektra, killed his mom and her lover

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