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What were the opponents of the Trojan war?
The Greeks of Sparta. Paris, Prince of Troy, stole immortal Helen of Sparta from her father, Menelaus. Menelaus wanted his (adopted, in a way) daughter back. The Greeks stormed Troy, where Paris and Helen were living together. That 10-year siege, called the Trojan war, involved the god Ares, the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, and the famous Trojan horse.
According to the legend why did the Trojan war begin?
Helen left her husband Menelaus king of Sparta to run away with Paris, looting his possessions to take with her to make herself more attractive. The Greeks retaliated by mounting a 10-year looting expedition of Asia Minor.
The Trojan War was against Greece and Troy?
The Trojan War was fought between the Greek city-states and the city of Troy. According to the myth, the ten-year war was fought over Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta, the most beautiful woman in the world. However, a real Trojan War would likely have been a series of raids and assaults by the Greeks for the purposes of pillaging and/or trade issues.
Where in The Iliad does it mention Paris taking Helen?
After the Judgment of Paris, in which Paris determined Aphrodite to be the most beautiful of the goddesses in return for the love of the most beautiful woman on earth (Helen), Paris had to go kidnap Helen because she was already married to Menelaus, the king of Sparta. In some versions of the myth, she goes willingly.
How did the Trojan War started according to what people believe?
The story is that visiting Trojan prince Paris persuaded Helen, the wife of king of Sparta Menelaus, to run away with him and bring along the treasure of Sparta. This unleashed a reprisal invasion of Troy, the home city of Paris, which was really a ten year looting expedition of the rich cities of Asia Minor.
Was the Trojan War fought for something more than Helen?
Helen looted husband king Menelaus' property and took it with her when she ran off with Paris to Troy. When the Trojans had the Greeks at their gates, their king Priam offered to give Helen back. The Greeks said 'what about the looted treasure?' Priam said a definite 'no way' and the siege continued with fatal results. So it seems that Helen was just a tradeable commodity, and the important thing was the real property - the treasure. In fact the chase for Helen misses the reality - it was an opportunity for the Greeks to descend on Asia Minor and the Islands to pillage it, which they did for ten years, before turning in the tenth year for the richest prize of Troy when they had stripped the rest of the coast of Asia Minor bare. Helen was a trivial part of the prize, being taken back into her husband's household in Sparta along with all the other loot.
Did Paris force Helen to run away with menelaus?
It was actually Helen of Sparta, not Troy, who went with Paris of Troy, leaving Sparta, her husband and daughter, and everything she was behind. She didn't actually become Helen of Troy until such time as she was welcomed into Trojan society as a Princess of Troy. Helen of Sparta, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, wasn't actually kidnapped by Paris, a Prince of Troy. Helen had been promised to him by the Greek goddess Aphrodite, whom Paris had claimed was the most beautiful of all the goddesses. Naturally, like most women, this pissed of the other goddesses, Athena and Hera. Paris went to Sparta during a period when Menelaus was absent from Sparta for a funeral. True to her word, as Aphrodite had promised, Helen fell in love with him and willingly left Menelaus and Sparta behind, along with Hermione, their 9 year old daughter (bet you didn't know where the name Hermione came from). At this point there are conflicting testaments as to whether or not Paris and Helen actually went to Troy; some accounts have them going to Egypt, where upon learning what they had done, seized all the treasure that Paris had taken, including Helen, and waited for Menelaus to show up and reclaim his wife and gold. By this time, Menelaus was home in Sparta, had been informed that his wife had dumped him for Orlando Bloom, and left him a lot poorer and with a kid to boot. He was not a happy camper. Having promised Menelaus that they would stand by him should Helen ever be abducted again (she had already been taken before, once when she was only 12) her former suitors, who became the Greek heroes of the Trojan War. After getting to Troy and demanding the return of Helen and his loot, as stated previously, some accounts had Helen and Paris in Egypt, so when the Greeks showed up on the Trojan beach, King Priam of Troy (Paris' Dad) and Prince Hector (Paris' brother, and hero of Troy) told Menelaus, Odysseus, Ajax, Achilles, and all the other Greeks who had shown up for the war that they had been suckered - Paris and Helen weren't there at Troy, but had in fact eloped to sunny Egypt for a few quiet years while things "died down" a bit. Well, things died of course - the Trojan War lasted 10 years, the Greeks unable to penetrate the high, steep walls that had kept them from getting inside the city. At that period in history, there were no great siege machines of war, Trebuchets, Catapults, or anything for breaching battlements. After 10 years, the Greeks got tired of not winning every day, and losing their friends all the time, not to mention the deployment time away from Greece. 10 years is a long deployment. Sitting around the campfire on the beach one night, Odysseus comes up with a brilliant plan - let's build a wooden horse, hide a bunch of us inside, and send everyone else away. The Trojans just might be dumb enough to bring it inside the city to offer it to Poseidon at their temple, to rob us of OUR offering to Poseidon on the beach for a safe journey back to Greece. So the Greek fleet sails just out of eyeball range, and leaves the wooden, hollow horse offering thingy on the beach with a lot of stinky Greek dudes inside. Not only is it cramped, it's also hot as hell, and they can't make a sound or move for fear of being discovered by the Trojans. And we won't even discuss what they did to relieve themselves during that period. Anyway, you know the rest - the Trojans fell for the stupid trick, and dragged the horse into the city, partied all night and got falling down drunk. At which point by that time, the Greek ships had sailed back, and Odysseus, Achilles, and the rest of the Greek gang had slithered out of the horse and signaled their buddies on the beach that the Trojans had fallen for it, and that the gate was open. In other words, they signaled "Time to Rape, Pillage, and Plunder."
Who did the Greeks fight in the Trojan War?
Legend:A large army of Greek soldiers and heroes sailed to the great city of Troy, where they were going to fight the Trojan soldiers to rescue Helen of Sparta.A dose of Reality:The Greeks went on a ten-year plundering and looting spree in the eastern Aegean Sea. They had an initial crack at the richest prize, Troy, failed, turned to the other cities and looted and enslaved them for nine years, and in the 10th year came back to Troy again, this time successfully.But even the legendary account has Helen avidly running off with Trojan Paris, stealing her husband King Menelaus' treasures to take with her to cement her relationship with Paris. In The Iliadaccount, during the final siege, the Trojan king offers to give Helen back if the Greeks will go home. The response was 'what about the stolen treasure'; Trojan King Priam's response 'no way', so the siege continued. Obviously a mere woman was of little value - the objective was the treasure.
When does the story Helen of troy occur?
Since Homer lived around 800 to 900 BCE, the story of Helen of Troy must have been earlier than that, but it is difficult to be more precise because the story is ficticious.
What is the subject of the lliad?
Homer's epic tale about the Iliad is all about how Paris ( Troy Prince ) abducted Helen, who was actually Menelaus's wife ( King of Sparta .) It is mainly about how The Greeks start a war because they want Helen back, but Paris will not give her back. In the end the Greeks create a wooden horse and hide all their warriors in it. The Trojans think that it is a gift from them and they want to end the war, and they start dancing and singing and celebrating. At night the Greek warriors jump out and burn down Troy.
What is the main theme of the iliad?
Death
How did the war in troy start?
In Greek legend, the Trojan War began when Paris, prince of Troy, stole away helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. In Greek history, well, the Trojan war antedates written history, so the legend is our only guide. certainly there was a war; certainly Troy was destroyed. but for a woman? real life is rarely so romantic. The fact is almost certainly that Troy was positioned where its forces could restrict access for traders to the Black sea, and the Greeks wanted that access.
