THE TROJAN HORSE

LESSON NO. 6
GREEK LITERATURE FROM THE AENEID BY VIRGIL
 SETTING

• Place : Troy
• Time: Era of King Priam of Troy and King
Agamemnon of Sparta,
Greece
• Weather: Fair weather
 CHARACTERS
• Odysseus : who planned to make a statue
of a horse to trick the Trojans.
• Sinon: a Greek soldier whom the army had
left behind.
• King Priam: King of Troy
• King Agamemnon:King of Sparta
• Achilles: great warrior of Greece
• Paris: Prince of Troy, lover of Helen
• Helen: Lover of Paris
• Cassandra:Fortune teller who did not dare
to open her lips though she saw the
pending doom.
 PLOT - EXPOSITION

• Odysseus think of a planned on how

• The Greeks were thinking on how
they will able to enter the City of
they will be able to siege the wall of
Troy and it is by means of a horse
Troy for them to beat the enemy
statue.
 PLOT – RISING ACTION

• The happiest day in the history of • They saw within the shore of Troy a
Troy was when the Greek army statue of a horse and they thought it
sailed away after ten years of battle. was a gift from the Greeks.
 PLOT – CLIMAX

• On the night after the Trojans

brought home the horse the Greeks
who were hiding inside the horse
came out and siege the whole city.
 PLOT – FALLING ACTION

• King Priam died on the hands of

Agamemnon
• Agamemnon died on the hands of the
cousin of Paris
• Achilles died on the hands of Paris
 PLOT – RESOLUTION

• Helen and Paris flew away from the

main city of Troy together with other
Trojans to start their lives again.
 PLOT – RESOLUTION

• Helen and Paris flew away from the

main city of Troy together with other
Trojans to start their lives again.
 CONFLICT

• Pride
• Craving for power
• Love
THEME

• War
• Love
• Violence
• Action
• Dramas
 MORALS OF THE STORY

• Always think many times before

deciding.
• No one will ever win in terms of war.
• Love can build nor can destroy.