Settings Point of View: Themes: Major conflict: Rising Action: Climax:
Third person The glory of war; Agamemnon’s Hector’s assault on Achilles’ return to Time: (Omniscent) military values over demand for Achilles’ the Achaean ships; combat turns the tide 9 years after the start family life; the war prize, the maiden the return of of the Trojan War impermanence of against the Trojans Briseis, wounds Patroclus to combat; Place: human life and its once and for all and Achilles’ pride; the death of Troy creations Achilles’ consequent ensures the fated fall Patroclus of Troy to which the refusal to fight causes the Achaeans to poet has alluded Characters: suffer greatly in their throughout the battle against the poem. The Acheans The Trojans Gods and Immortals Trojans. Achilles Hector Zeus Agamemnon Priam Hera Patroclus Hecuba Athena Odysseus Paris Thetis Denouement: Diomedes Helen Apollo The retreat of the Great Ajax Aeneas Aphrodite Trojan army; Achilles’ Little Ajax Andromache Poseidon revenge on Hector; Nestor Astynax Hephaestus the Achaeans’ Menelaus Polydamas Artemis desecration of Hector’s corpse Idomeneus Glaucus Ares Machaon Agenor Hermes Calchas Dolon Iris Peleus Pandarus Phoenix Antenor The Myrmidons Sarpedon Chryseis Briseis Chryses