Trojan War

Odysseus was on his 10 year wanderings home, so he wasn't involver. Agamemnon was murdered by the boyfriend his wife had taken up with during his long absence.

It's the year given by the Greek Erathostenes, but most historians very much doubt whether the Trojan War ever really took place. Homer's Iliad , our only source for this war, has grown out of a number of epic poems, told and re-told over centuries before finally written down and probably much embellished in the process. Homer himself in all probability never existed as a person. The famous Troy that Heinrich Schliemann discovered consisted of the ruins of seven cities that over time were built more or less on top of each other. Only one showed signs of fire, but not of destruction by war.. The ruins are collectively still called 'Troy" by local tourist agencies but it is doubtful if they are.

The Greeks had looted out the rest of western Asia Minor, and returned for another try at the richest prize, Troy, after their failure in year i. This time they succeeded.

It is part of the legendary background of the Mycenaean Greeks.

So the legend says.

A looting expedition of Achaean Greeks invaded western Asia Minor and successfully captured the rich cities there, including Troy.

The Archeans.

The Greek plundering expedition, as the story goes. However he had been dead for 50 years when the invasion happened.

An invading coalition of Greek states and the cities of Asia Minor who they were pillaging, including Troy.

The year is unknown - 12th Century BCE.

The Ionians and the Dorians.

The Achaeans made a failed bid to capture Troy, went on to carry out their plan to loot western Asia Minor, and after nine years of this, turned back on the riches prize, Troy.

She was enamored of visiting Trojan prince Paris, and ran away with him, looting the treasures of Sparta to take with her.

His problem gave them a good excuse to loot Asia Minor.

The VIIa level of Troy does not show signs of significant military activity.

The Trojan Horse in Homer's Iliad was a large wooden horse left as a gift outside the barred gates of the city of Troy; soldiers were hidden inside the horse. The people of Troy saw it as a gift and took it inside their city, At night, the soldiers came out of the horse, opened the gate, and let the enemy army in to invade the city.

Similarly, a Trojan Horse or Trojan virus is a program or file (like a game) we might want on our computer. It is downloaded, installed and run. The program may do as expected, or not, but it will also embed itself as maleware doing things on the computer we would not want.

A defensive wall.

It included gods and tall tales in what might have simply been a protracted looting raid of Asia Minor.

It was sung by the travelling bards for hundreds of years in endless variation.

Helen of Troy.

The Trojan War my well be a myth. Those who think it was real usually date it during 12th or 11th centuries BCE.

Supposedly in the tenth year of a Mycenaean Greek looting expedition in western Asia Minor.

Back in husband Menelaus' palace in Sparta.