The Iliad

traveling bards, or oral storytellers, and was written down much later

throwing of the apple that started the struggle

the trojan war

The Greek hero Achilles is the main character of the Iliad, as the poem is about his conflicts with various characters, (first Agamemnon when the Mycaenean king commandeers Achilles' spoils of war, then Hector when he kills Achilles' cousin Patroclus, then technically the Trojan King Priam, when he comes to beg Achilles to give Hector's body back) Xanatos
Achilles.

In the Iliad, Apollo cast a plague upon the Greeks for refusing to allow the ransom of the daughter of one of his priests. This does not help Odysseus at all.

Apollo was not a significant figure in the Odyssey.

Achilles was killed in Troy by Paris while the Greeks were invading the Trojans.

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Although the stories are supposed to tell of events in the 12th Century BCE, they were eventually written down, after cursive writing was developed, in the 8th Century BCE and generally reflect the political and social conditions of that latter era, which underlies the superficial 'kings' of an earlier era. The farmers who owned and tilled the land employed a 'hero' warrior to organise and lead defence against predatory nomads, pirates and neighbours. The 'hero' lived in princely style on the high defensible ground, and there the people could take refuge in time of threat. As employer, however, their council directed the activity of the 'hero'.

Outside these farming communities in the mainland and islands were the pirates, a quite respectable profession, and necessary when you look at the barren, rocky islands they lived on. Indeed the story of the attack on Troy is that of a great 10 year pirate raid by early Greeks - the Achaeans - on the coast and islands of Asia Minor, which they looted for ten years culminating with the rich prize of the trading city of Troy in the tenth year.

The nomads, which the Greeks themselves had been when they moved in, in successive waves, and took over Greece from the Mycenaean inhabitants after the time of the reputed Trojan War (12th Century BCE), had become settled on the land by the time Homer wrote the Iliad and Odyssey in the late 8th Century BCE. And being prolific breeders, the limited arable land could not support their expanding populations, so they established colonies all around the Mediterranean in Southern Europe, North Africa and Western Asia to support them, which explains the spread of the Greek world.

It was a world of subsistence farmers who were also fighters to defend their land and take the land of others. They lived a precarious life on their tiny farms, fought to protect or plunder, and progressively began developing and borrowing a civilisation which came to lead the world in building, the arts, science, trade, government, warfare and callous butchery.

These stories that homer wrote teached courage ,bravery,and life lessons. The illiad tells about the Trojan horse. The odyssey tells about a guy named Odysseus and after his army gives the the Trojan horse and kills all of those people the sails for 20 years just to try to get back to Greece, because the god Poseidon was mad at him.

be more specific

achilles killed like everyone in his path

he tried to kill this one girl, mrathus, but i stopped him

hes mean

The Iliad (the story of Ilium, another word for Troy - the poem relates an episode in the Trojan War) and the Odyssey - an account of the ten-year journey of Odysseus home from Troy to ithaca.

He was ruler of the city-state of Mycenae in the Peloponnese. The best known is Agamemnon.

I do not support aggression in any way - it must be the last resort, but war does have some (albeit few) positive points:

1) We learn fighting tactics of the opponent

2) We find the problems or things that don't work in our own system of warfare

3) We can overthrow a corrupt regime and bring peace (i.e. the Nazi's) or institute a better system of governance (i.e. the Romans)

Hercules was killed by the blood of a centaur called Nessus which Hercules' wife dunk into his cloths thinking that it would bring eternal love between them. The pain was so great that Hercules killed himself. but his soul went up to the Olympus.

The participation of the demigods in the war, the issue of the women, the loss of the injustice and evil and the victory of the righteousness are the common between these two great epics- The Mahabharata and the Iliad.

Let's not confuse modern media with mythology. In mythology Aphrodite and Ares were never wounded in battle. The closest event was when Hephaestus captured them during one of their trysts and displayed them on Mt. Olympus.

He was bigger and stronger then him

Agamemnon, the captain of the Greeks.

In the Iliad, the Greek Catalogue lists twenty-nine contingents under 46 captains, accounting for a total of 1,186 ships. Using the Boeotian figure of 120 men per ship results in a total of 142,320 men transported to the Troad. They are named by various ethnonyms and had lived in 164 places described by toponyms. The majority of these places have been identified and were occupied in the Late Bronze Age. The terms Danaans, Argives and Achaeans or the sons of the Achaeans are used for the army as a whole. In his Library, Apollodorus lists thirty contingents under 43 leaders with a total of 1013 ships, Hyginus lists 1154 ships, although the total is given as only 245 ships.

***The Catalogue of Ships (Ancient Greek: νεῶν κατάλογος, neōn katalogos) is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's Iliad (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy.

Fight. More details can be found in book 12 of the Iliad, which, apparently, you were supposed to read and didn't. I suggest you do.

Agamemnon takes away Briseis - Achilles' favourite concubine (sex slave).

This is the dispute which starts the story of the Iliad.

King Priam.

No Menelaus seemed only to want his wife Helen back.

The Odyssey is the story of how Odysseus returned home to Ithaca after the fall of the city of Troy. Troy is believed to have fallen around 1190 BC after an extended siege (10 years according to legend).

Since Odysseus was king of Ithaca and had a new born son when he left for the war and who was around 20 when he returned, Odysseus was probably born around 1210 BC or before and lived until after 1180 BC.