1. Trojan War – Study notes
Danna Rae C. Arquisola
We are not sure if TROY exists
No one knows where TROY is until today
No archaeological history
No current writings
Scientist believed that since everybody is
writing about them then there TROY must
be TRUE
Why do we need to discuss this?
Later in life, there are many Greek
sculptures, movies, art, etc that would
relate to the TROJAN WAR
There is no singular author regarding
TROJAN WAR
There are dozens of writers that
contributed to the story
That is why there are many perspectives
regarding a certain character
ILIAD – written well; focused on the life of
Achilles until he died

4. The story starts here.
Thetis: sea nymph; demi god
Peleus: mortal soldier
In their wedding, they invited all GODS and
GODESSES except ERIS( Goddess of
Discord)
ERIS was offended she threw a golden
apple with a text “ To the fairest”
HERA(Goddess of marriage, fertility),
APHRODITE(Goddess of love and beauty)
and ATHENA (Goddess of wisdom)
Since the GODS cant decide, ZEUS then
asked help from PARIS.
Paris had a hard time deciding
The three goddesses bribe PARIS
HERA – Paris will be a powerful ruler
ATHENA – Paris will be the wisest man
APHRODITE – Paris will have the love of
the most beautiful woman
PARIS chose Aphrodite
Peleus and Thetis had a son name Achilles
In the picture, Thetis wanted her son to
invulnerable that is why she tried to dip
her son to the RIVER STYX (River of the
underworld)
She cannot dip her hand because if she will
do so, she will become mortal or whoever
GOD will do that will become mortal
Achilles’ heel was not included that is why
he easily died after his heel was attacked

5. Helen the most beautiful woman and the
only daughter of the King and Queen of
Sparta
SPARTA : City-state of Greece; very
powerful city because of its ARMY
(Swerteang guy because he will be the king
at the same time marrying the most
beautiful woman)
She had many suitors that is why her
suitors agreed to 2 conditions:
Helen’s decision will be respected
Anything happens to their relationship,
they will help defend the marriage
Helen choses Menalus
On their wedding day, Trojan princes
HECTOR and PARIS attended the wedding
PARIS and HELEN then fell in love (LOVE AT
FIRST SIGHT)
PARIS and HELEN escaped in Mycenae and
went to TROY
THAT IS WHY HELEN is considered to be
the “FACE THAT LAUNCH A THOUSAND
SHIPS” because there were many men who
went to get her in TROY.
Everybody sided with Mycenae because
also of the 2 conditions of Helen’s suitor
Odysseus also invited
PHILOCTETES(bestfriend of Hercules)
because it was prophesied that the BOW of
HERCULES will end TROY
Odysseus then recruited ACHILLES
Odysseus then went to Thetis and look for
Achilles but she hid Achilles in a brothel
Then Odysseus was able to look out for
Achilles then Achilles joined the group
Achilles brought his ARMY, the
MYRMIDONS(50 men)
Then they travel to TROY
Philoctetes’ ship got lost and was injured

6. Nothing important
Sometimes they win, sometimes not
If Achilles is there, they win, kung wala,
pildi
Briseis (priestess of Apollo and a relative of
the TROJANS) was captured and was given
to Achilles but Achilles respected her
because she is royalty and later on they
liked each other
THIS IS WHERE THE POEM ILIAD STARTS
Since they are not winning nor losing,
Agamemnon took Briseis and Achilles does
not want to fight anymore
When the Trojans attacked the Achaeans
(Mycenaeans), PATROCLUS wanted to fight
that is why he got the armor of ACHILLES
and attacked the Achaeans but the was
killed by HECTOR
Because of his action, mycenaeans also
wanted to fight, they only fight if Achilles
will join
THE ARMOR of ACHILLES is also very
special because HEPHAESTUS himself
(blacksmith of the GODS) was the one who
created it
Hector was shocked that it was not Achilles
who was not killed but Patroclus that is
why he gave him an honorable death by
stabbing him in the center
As you can see in the picture, there is a
man dragging his body
When Achilles found out about this, he
was very mad with HECTOR

7. Achilles returns to battle
Achilles kills HECTOR and drag his body
back to their place
King Priam (King of TROY) was so sad about
his son’s body that is why he visited
Achilles all by himself and begged for his
son’s body
Achilles gave HECTOR’S body because he
was somehow amazed with the humility of
the king
Then in the succeeding wars, PARIS kills
ACHILLES by throwing an arrow in his heel
And that made him vulnerable and then he
died
In another war, Philoctetes killed PARIS
using the BOW of HERCULES
After the Princes of Troy are gone, Helen
helped and invited Odysseus over to their
place not thinking that Odysseus had
another thing in mind
Odysseus being the WISEST man
Odysseus made the TROJANS think that
they already went home and made this
HORSE as an offering to POSEIDON for a
safe trip
TROJANS celebrated because the
ACHAEANS are gone and they let the
TROJAN HORSE enter
When night came, all ACHEANS hid inside
the TROJAN HORSE and ATTACKED the city
and its people
AND THAT’S THE FALL OF TROY
Some other informations:
POSEIDON got mad at the ACHEANS
because the horse was not really intended
for him that is why NO MYCENAEANS (
ACHEANS) went back to Mycenae or
Sparta
In the book, Odyssey, it talks about the
3C & 3T,
READ FROM LEFT TO RIGHT 
STUDY HARD AND I HOPE U ENJOYED THE STORY
-T.D

8. journey of Odysseus going back to their
place after being punished by Poseidon
ROMANS then believed that they are the
MYCENAEANS who were lost that is why
they are very brave.