Term list: Trojan saga Leda and Tyndareus of Sparta Castor and Polydeuces/Pollux (Dioscuri) Helen and Clytemnestra Wedding of Peleus and Thetis (Eris) Judgment of Paris Trojans: Laomedon Priam and Hecuba Paris/Alexander Hector Andromache Astyanax Helenus Troilus and Cressida Cassandra Aeneas Achaeans (Greeks): Agamemnon and Menelaus Diomedes Nestor of Pylos Big (Telamonian) Ajax from Salamis Little (Oilean) Ajax from Locris Idomeneus Odysseus, king of Ithaca Palamedes Achilles, king of Myrmidons, Thessaly Neoptolemus Peleus, Achilles' father Patroclus Beginning of the war: Gathering at Aulis Philoctetes Protesilaus Telephus Events of the Iliad: quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles embassy to Achilles death of Patroclus new armor forged by Hephaestus death and ransom of Hector Events after the action of the Iliad: Trojan Allies Amazons (Penthesilea) Aethiopians (Memnon) Achilles and Penthesilea Death of Achilles; race for his armor Polyxena The Trojan horse Laocoon sack of Troy Aeneas' escape		Slides ................... Leda and the swan Birth of Helen, comic play Judgment of Paris Achilles on Scyros Philoctetes Death of Troilus Death of Sarpedon Achilles and Patroclus Priam ransoms Hector Ajax recovers body of Achilles Suicide of Ajax The Trojan horse Laocoon's death Little Ajax and Cassandra
The epic cycle of Troy:    Cypria events leading to war  Iliad the tenth year of war; the wrath of Achilles  Aethiopis the Amazons and Ethiopians; the death of Achilles  Iliupersis the wooden horse; the sack of Troy  Nostoi the homecomings of the Greeks  Odyssey the travels of Odysseus and his conflict with the suitors).

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