The Trojan War in History, Art and Literature at the City Lit was held on Sunday 27 January 2013. I expanded this into a tree day course on Saturdays 7th, 21st and 28th October 2017.
We examined the causes, progress and aftermath of this famous war using the art and literature of Ancient Greece and later. The course included a visit to the British Museum.
This was also the first online course I ran for the City Lit during the Pandemic. It was on three Saturday mornings: 17th, 24th and 31st October 2020. the slides for this version are at the end. The course was repeated on 6 and 13 November 2021.
The handouts from the course can be downloaded below.
List of characters in the Iliad
In addition you might find some of the material below useful
Greek plays about Troy in chronological order
Trojan war script for BM spotlight
The extra resources from the 2017 course included
The Trojan War Course background material
The Shield of Achilles by Hephaestus
Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale
Mycenaean Royal Trojan family tree
Below are the slides from the 2017 course as printable documents
Before the War as printable handout
During the war as printable handout
After the war as printable handout
2020 PDF Slides
A video from the British Museum Exhibition showing the marriage of Peleus and Thetis from the Sophilos Dinos
2021 Slides
Troy – The Archaeological Evidence PDF
Presentation 1 2021 Before the War PDF
Presentation 2 During the War 2021 PDF
Presentation 3 After the War 2021 PDF
A video from the British Museum Exhibition showing Odysseus and the Suitors