The first day of "Iliad Character" Presentations

Dear Mythology Kids,

If you missed class on Monday, February 23rd, we started our presentations concerning the characters of The Iliad. Each partnership and/or individual student submitted their handouts and their visual representation of their assigned character. Due to the fact that Monday was an "early out," we were only able to complete the presentations for PRIAM and PARIS. I have included images below of both characters and the quotes selected by the groups that
presented for each class.


Priam, King of Troy, bowing before Achilles

• B1/B2:
• 1. "I have endured what no other mortal on the face of the earth has yet endured, to reach forth my hand to the face of him that has slain my sons."
• 2. " So accompanied the old man past the guards and came into the presence of the man who had killed and maltreated his son. He clasped his knees and kissed his hands and as he did so, Achilles felt awe and so did all the other there....."
• B4:
• 1. "Priam was killed by Neopotolemus, the son of Achilles. Achilles had spared Priam, but Achilles' son struck him down before the eyes of his wife and daughters."
• 2. ""In Greek Mythology, Priam was the last king of Troy, a ruler who witnessed the destruction of his city in the Trojan War. His son Paris caused the war, while another son, Hector, became the greatest Trojan hero during the long struggle with the Greeks."
  

Paris, Prince of Troy

B1:

1. "Hera promised to make him Lord of Europe and Asia; Athena, that he would lead the Trojans to victory against the Greeks and lay Greece in ruins; Aphrodite, that the fairest woman in all the world would be his."

2. "Paris, a weakling and something of a coward, too, as later events showed, chose the last."

B2:

1. "Paris himself, who had not fought at all, except to throw his spear, she caught up in a cloud and took him back to Helen."

2. "His single combat with Menelaus, Helen's husband, was suppose to have settled the outcome of the whole war. Instead it revealed Paris as a coward, who only escaped through the intervention of Aphrodite."

B4:

1. "In Sparta, Menelaus, husband of Helen, treated Paris as a royal guest. However, when Menelaus left Sparta for a funeral, Paris abducted Helen and also carried off much of Menelaus' wealth."

2. "What men care for most was set before him. Hera promised to make him Lord of Europe and Asia; Athena, that he would lead the Trojans to victory against the Greeks and lay Greece in ruins; Aphrodite, that the fairest woman in all the world should be his. Paris, a weakling and something of a coward, too, as later events showed, chose the last. He gave Aphrodite the golden apple."

I hope this assists those of you that were not in class on Monday. Do your best to NOT miss any more school, guys, as doing so is extremely detrimental to your future success.