The Iliad

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The Odyssey and the Iliac were written at about 800B.C.

He withdrew because King Agamemnon confiscated his war prize Briseis to replace one that he, Agamemnon, had been obliged to return. Achilles was insulted by the demand, and claimed that he and his men were doing the work, but the king was reaping the rewards. He refused to fight even if he were apologized to later.

According to Dictionary.com Menelaus's brother was Agamemnon. According to my book, Gods, Demigods & Demons, An Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology by Bernard Evslin, Menelaus is the brother of Agamemnon. In my book, Mythology - Myths, Legends and Fantasies by Global Book Publishing, Menelaus is the son of Atreus and Aerope, husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon who was married to Clytaemnestra. Menelaus had one daughter called Hermione. Menelaus was the king of Sparta, while Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae. Hope this helps! Alice

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."

The leader of the Greek princes, Agamemnon, had been forced to return a noblewoman he had captured to her father. As compensation, he then took away the girl Briseis - a captive, and probably also lover of Achilles.

Hector's main role in The Iliad was that of killing and dishonoring Achilles' best friend, Patroclus. This engraged Achilles and led him to seek revenge.

He lead Myrmidons to victory in the Trojan War

Poseidon (who made the seas favorable), Hera (the wife of Zeus), and Athena (for whom Athens was named), all favored the Greeks. Aries, the God of War, and Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, favored the Trojans.

Telemachus accepts a silver bowl with a gold lip from Menelaus.

One story that King Menelaus told was that on his return from Troy, he was stranded in Egypt and was captured by Proteus. Proteus told King Menelaus that Odysseus was still alive but is held captive on Calypso's island.

First of all, the Trojan War may not have been a real historical event at all, merely a Greek myth. However, if it did occur, it most likely occurred around 1200 BC.

Hermes was sent to tell Paris to choose the fairest Goddess (either Aphrodite, Hera, or Athena.) This argument about the fairest started when Eris, who didn't get invited to a wedding, rolled a golden apple for the fairest Goddess.

Athena

Achilles avenges Patroclus by killing Hector.

The Iliad records a small portion of the battle of Troy, where soldiers from mainland Greece took the city of troy or Ilias. The batlle is believed to have taken place around 1200 bc and its famous people include Achillies, Hector, Agamemnon, Helen to name the main characters.

Menelaus, King of Sparta, naturtally knows Odysseus, King of Ithaca.

Agamemnon takes Achilles' war prize, Briseis, ater Agamemnon was forced to give back his own prize, Chryseis.

He was forced to return Chryseis because of a plague that Apollo sent against the Greeks for refusing to allow Chryseis to be ransomed to her father.

Achilles wants to kill Agamemnon because he is a pompous, power-hungry man who believes that no one except for him should get the spoils of war. Achilles' "Prize" (A woman whom was captured in the first battle in Troy) was taken from him by Agamemnon and Agamemnon was using her for his own pleasure and then threw her to the Men like a piece of meat to the bulldogs. After that, Achilles declares that he will kill him.

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Also it is about Achilles' pride as a warrior and his love for Briseis that makes him threaten Agamemnon to leave the war and with Agamemnons actions and brutish language (in order to gain the power his has back) he dismisses Achilles.

Agamemnon "But here is a threat: in the same way as Phoesbus Apollo is robbing me of Chryseis, whom I propose to send off in my ship with my crew, I will come in person to your hut and take away fair-cheeked Brieseis, your prize, Achilles, to let you know how far I am your superior and to teach others to shrink from claiming parity with me and playing the equal to my face." (Book 1 lines 183-189)

Achilles does not actually threaten to kill Agamemnon Athene comes down from Olympus and stops him.

They believe have he will fall to the great Achilles. King Priam, Hector's father also fears that Troy will fall after his death.

Hector is the commander of the Trojan army. although he was not king he was supossed to be the next king but never got to be because of his death. he still showed responsibility towards the Trojan community and strongly cared about the people. he dedicated his life to the service of others.

On the Dardanelles Strait.

He acted like a child. After hearing that his concubine, Chryseis, needed to be returned to her father (the priest of Apollo) Agamemnon's basic response was that if he had to suffer the loss of a concubine, that Achilles should lose his too. When Achilles became irate over this loss and refused to continue fighting, Agamemnon showed him the door claiming that he could still win without Achilles. Only the death of Achilles's close friend Patroklos inspired Achilles to fight for the Greeks again.

Yes. He kills him with a spear pierced into the jugular, after they had ran around the city three times. In the end, Achilles dragged Hector around on the back of his chariot, in an attempt to release his anger toward him.

Relative morality is someone who always tries to judge a situation before making a decision. this means that sometimes the rules are broken, because that course of action does not seem to be the best one.

Nestor tells Achilles and Agamemnon that it is sad to see the Greeks divided and that they should pay attention to his wise words. He tells Achilles that he should not think he can fight against a king and that Agamemnon is greater than he is because he rules over more people. He then tells Agamemnon that even though he is powerful, he should not take Briseis because the Greeks gave her to Achilles as his prize of honor.