Understanding the Iliad requires a great deal of background information. CTCWeb Editors have prepared these PowerPoint presentations as a way to offer teachers insight on where to begin. Ranging through historical background to textual history to mythological background, these PowerPoint presentations cover ground designed to help students by filling in information gaps. The first PowerPoint is designed to help teachers prepare their initial lecture on Homer's text. The second PowerPoint prepares an interactive discussion with students that is designed to anticipate their questions and responses to the text.

• Iliad Introduction PPT
• Warfare, Geography and the Gods PPT
  

To learn more about Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, see Troy.