chapter summery host musters

in this chapter everyone went to war.it started off talking about the Greeks getting ready for war on the beaches on troy.agamemnonand achilles are on a ship and they are arguing

charecter cataloge

Zues:"Zues...no loner desired the goddess...his own rule must be ended if a god became greater than he."

Thetis:"...Thetis,the sea nymph,racing over the sparkling waves with the wind behind her...hard to catch as the sun on dancing water."

Peleas:"king of the myrmidons was the chosen bridegroom... although the angry nymph[ Thetis ]changed to...Peleas would not let her go."

Hera:"..then stepped forth stately Hera,Queen of queens gaped at her from flashing crown to the purple crocus flowers around her feet."

Athene:"she had aid aside her weapons of war."

Aphrodite:"last of all came smiling Aphrodite..."

Hecuba:"queen hecuba had awakened on a windy morning and had sent  messengers running through the city of troy."

Paris:"his nature was soft and peaceful and he was ignorant of the world."

king Priam:"that shall never do said king Priam grimly... and did not your soothsayers prophesy ... no less than fifty sons?"    

Calchus: "Calachus was a prophet,who knew the minds of the gods and could fortell the future"(Pg.28)
He was the person to whom Agenemnon went to ask him what to do to get the winds to change.To Calchus's regret Agememnon had to kill his own daughter.

Agamemnon:As a king and an overlord of greece,Agamemnon played a very important roll in the book The Trojan War. Although  he was important to the book he was still a very bad person. King Agamemnon was a very proud and greedy man. He..."could not bear the reproach of failure..."(p.30)
He did not like anyhting more than being a winner and a respected king. He cared more about power and respect than he did about his own daughter Iphigenia. Agememnon liked to be important and that will eventually cost him a lot...maybe even his very own life.

Iphigenia: Iphigenia wa Agememnons daughter. She was "... the poor girl [who] came full of eagerness and decked out in her best clothes"(   ). Ipigenia was just an innocent girl but because of her fathers pride she was killed as a sacrifice.

about the author

Olivia E. Coolidge

Olivia Ensor Coolidge was born in London England on October sixteenth 1908.she attended Somerville college at oxford university. In 1931 Olivia received a bachelors of arts and in 1940 she received her masters of arts. Olivia's first book published was Greek myths for children and young adults.Men of Athens was a newberry book Honor book and in 1963 was on the horn book Honor list its also an American library association notable book. Olivia Ensor Coolidge was an excellent writer.

Homer the Anciant Greek Poet

Homer

Homer

Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is said to have written the Iliad   and the Odyssey. scholars know almost nothing about homer but some believed he lived in a Greek speaking city on the eastern shore of the Aegean sea. according to many homer was blind. the Iliad and the Odyssey too place during and after the Trojan war. if homer was real o think hat t is extraordinary that he could write such incredible poems.