Objectives:

Introduction
• Homer is the author of the central
works on ancient Greek Literature “
The Iliad”
• He lived during the Iron age of greece
• Type of Work: Poem
• Genre: Epic
• The Iliad is a long narrative epic poem
with Dactylic Hexameter- 6 Metrical
Feet in life of poetry with short vowel
and two long vowel.
• Language: Ancient Greek
 SUMMARY

CITY OF TROY
Continuation...
 THEMES
WAR: Death is GOD’S AND
Inevitable, Not even FATE: There
those who bears are two
the mightiest skill choices in a
life of a
HUMANITY: Our warrior. To
desires and choose long
suffering make us life without
human glory or short
HONOR AND PRIDE: but glorious
There are no life.
winners in war
Characters and Characterization
Setting
Time
TIME: The timeline of Iliad
happened sometime between 725
and 675 BCE, 9 years after the
Trojan War.
PLACE: The story took place in
Troy (now known as Turkey),
located near the west coast facing
Aegean Sea
Plot
Exposition
Apolo input the plague on the
achean army after agamemnon
back to the origin of the war itself,
in which Paris Prince of Troy took
helen from king menelaus. The
Greek army which is the acheans
are closing in on Troy.
The warrior of Trojans refused to
back down and are determined to
drive off their invaders.
The Rising Action Climax
• Hector’s assualt on • Achilles return to
the acheans ship combat turns the tide
against the trojans,
• The retrun of once and for all and
patroclus to combat ensures the fated fall
• The Death of of Troy to which the
poet has alluded
Patroclus throughout the poem.
• The revenge of
Achilles
The Falling Action
• The retreat of
the Trojan
army.
• The acheans
desecreation
of Hectors
corpse
 Style
• The approach of Iliad is in formal
tone, written in the style of epic
poem in the language of Ancient
Greek primarily composed of
Ionic dialect (Ancient Greek).
 Structure
Foreshadowing:

Because of the prophecy-driven

plot of the story and the fact that
the writer wrote this after the
Trojan War.
Learnings, Realizations,or Insights
Lady Danielle
 Ruth
• When we are at war we lose one of the most important things in
Humanity which is peace.
• Death is part of Human being that is why before death comes we
must try to live an honorable life, we must strive to have a life where
we try to live a legacy of good things in our society.
• Our fear of pain affects our daily decisions that makes our lives
meaningful.
• Human think pain is their worst enemy and fear in life. But the pain is
what makes us fight and achieve
 Kim
• Some people cannot take kindness as kindness itself
• We all have choices and each choice comes with consequence
• It is a burden to have knowledge without using it to bring change
• When there are wars, there would just be people who’ll die while
risking their lives.
Atasha