Trojan War - Book Report
Integrated Montessori Center
SY: 2013-2014
Book Report of The Trojan Wars
Submitted by: Natasha Beatriz Ancheta
III- Radon
Submitted to: Teacher Orlando C. Pascual
I. Introduction
a. Biography of the Author
Edith Hamilton was a well-known educator and author. She is recognized as the “greatest woman Classicist”.
She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in the year 1930. Hamilton had not yet been to Greece and was only writing about Greek mythology through the literary classics. It was only after three decades, when Hamilton was ninety years old, and other published works was she able to travel to Greece.
Awards and Recognition Received:
1950 – She received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Rochester and the University of Pennsylvania
1957 – In Greece, where King Paul of Greece awarded her the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction, making her an honorary citizen of Athens.
II. Setting
Troy – the main setting. It is the city where most of the story takes place. It is said that it was located near the eastern end of the Mediterranean. It was a rich and a very powerful city with high, impregnable walls.
Mount Olympus – home of the Greek gods where Zeus rules.
Mount Ida – a mountain near the city of Troy. This is where King Priam sends his son, Paris, when it is prophesized that Paris will cause the ruin of the great city.
Sparta – This is where Menelaus and Helen lives, and where Paris stole Helen away.
Aulis – a place described to be impossible to sail through as long as the north winds blow. This is where the Greek army assembles to go to Troy and wage a war.
III. Character Descriptions
Eris – goddess of Discord. She threw an apple marked For the Fairest at the banquet hall during an important wedding to cause chaos within the vain goddesses because she was not invited.
Hera – Hera is the goddess of marriage and wife to Zeus. She is one of the three goddesses who sought Paris to be
SY: 2013-2014
Book Report of The Trojan Wars
Submitted by: Natasha Beatriz Ancheta
III- Radon
Submitted to: Teacher Orlando C. Pascual
I. Introduction
a. Biography of the Author
Edith Hamilton was a well-known educator and author. She is recognized as the “greatest woman Classicist”.
She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in the year 1930. Hamilton had not yet been to Greece and was only writing about Greek mythology through the literary classics. It was only after three decades, when Hamilton was ninety years old, and other published works was she able to travel to Greece.
Awards and Recognition Received:
1950 – She received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Rochester and the University of Pennsylvania
1957 – In Greece, where King Paul of Greece awarded her the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction, making her an honorary citizen of Athens.
II. Setting
Troy – the main setting. It is the city where most of the story takes place. It is said that it was located near the eastern end of the Mediterranean. It was a rich and a very powerful city with high, impregnable walls.
Mount Olympus – home of the Greek gods where Zeus rules.
Mount Ida – a mountain near the city of Troy. This is where King Priam sends his son, Paris, when it is prophesized that Paris will cause the ruin of the great city.
Sparta – This is where Menelaus and Helen lives, and where Paris stole Helen away.
Aulis – a place described to be impossible to sail through as long as the north winds blow. This is where the Greek army assembles to go to Troy and wage a war.
III. Character Descriptions
Eris – goddess of Discord. She threw an apple marked For the Fairest at the banquet hall during an important wedding to cause chaos within the vain goddesses because she was not invited.
Hera – Hera is the goddess of marriage and wife to Zeus. She is one of the three goddesses who sought Paris to be
References: All that is written here are based on the book of Edith Hamilton. Some of them are based on my sister’s ideas on the book. The rest have been thought about in my head.