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   The Iliad
      The Iliad starts nine years into the Trojan War
      The Trojan War took place in Troy which is in the 
      northwest corner of what we now call the Republic 
      of Turkey
      Many things had to happen to get this big war 
      under way
 The Start of it All…
               Three 
               generations of 
               misery and 
               bloodshed 
               started 
               because a 
               wedding 
               planner failed 
               to invite an 
               important 
               goddess…
 The Big 
 Affair – 
 Peleus and 
 Thetis’ 
 Wedding
   With Zeus’ consent, all the famous 
   mortals, gods, and goddess attended 
   Eris, the goddess of strife was not invited
   Eris was insulted and snuck into the 
   wedding reception…
                             A Golden Apple
         To the 
         fairest
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      Eris tossed a golden apple onto the 
      dance floor.
      On the apple were the words, “To the 
      fairest.”
      The golden apple was a serious party 
      killer.   Who was the most beautiful?
 Who is the fairest of them all?
 The competition was between:
 
  Athena – Zeus’ daughter and a real 
  daddy’s girl
 
  Hera – Zeus’ wife and Queen of the 
  Gods
 
  Aphrodite – The Goddess of Love
 They asked Zeus, as the King of the 
  Gods, to award the prize, but he was 
  no fool…