Trojan War

Hector sided with his country, Troy, but he did not want the war to take place. He felt that Paris, his brother, was foolish to steal Helen away from Menelaus and risk his country and countrymen in a meaningless war with Greece.

Yes, she was. She was in the beauty contest along with Hera and Athena, and won. For this, she gave Paris the love of the most beautiful girl on earth- Helen. Only problem- she was already married.

Troy is protected by its large wall around the city. It is either the soldiers destroy its wall or go inside the walls of Troy. Then Odysseus thought of building the Trojan horse with a plan of making the Trojans to bring it inside their city.

The Trojan war took a long time to end as Troy had a huge strong walland the gods helped both sides.

Yes! He survived and made it back home to his people wife and son.

Prince Paris "kidnapped" Helen, the wife of Menelaus and took her to Troy. When Helen was married, her father, fearing the wrath of the princes that he did not marry Helen to, made every one of Helen's suitors swear to fight whoever dares to take Helen away from her husband. So when Paris took Helen to Troy, Agamemnon, Menelaus's older brother, took this chance and lead the Achaeans to fight Troy for Helen.

The Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh are all origin stories from some of humanity's most established civilizations.

TROY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clymnestra. Agamemnon is the high king of the Greeks and ruled over Mycenae. A prophecy said that in order for the boats to sail safely to Troy, Iphigenia must be sacrficed. So Agamemnon came up with the scheme that Iphigenia was to marry Achilles, a great hero, but at the "marriage", she sacrificed her instead. There are alternate endings on how Artemis took pity on Iphigenia and replaced her with a deer at the last minute, and then made Iphigenia her priestess or that Pan sacrificed himself instead of Iphigenia.

The Achaean Greeks looted western Asia Minor and captured the richest city Troy by a stratagem which got a posse of Greeks into the city in a large wheeled wooden horse made in god-like form, the intruders opening the gated in the middle of the night after a Trojan victory party.

Hercules never existed yet during the trojan war.

Those heros were knowledgable. You wouldn't have lasted 10 years being dumb. The work strong in the mind as in the muscle. The were sly. Say quiet in the wooden horse for many hours was very hard. And they were brave. To risk yourself to return the fair Helen took much bravery and heart.

good attack by the people because they hid in the horse and came out while they were sleeping and like backstabbed them

She is the one who started it all. She threw a golden apple labeled 'To the fairest'.

Three of the goddesses competed for it. Aphrodite promised Paris (who judged the contest) that if he gave her the victory, she would get him the most beautiful woman in the world. She was queen Helen of Sparta.

Aphrodite helped Paris to abduct Helen to his home in Troy.

The Greeks wanted her back and started the Trojan war.

This event is not in the Iliad.

The Judgment of Paris

Discord/Eris was not invited to Peleus and Thetis's marriage but most of the gods were, so she was angry and dropped a golden apple in the banqueting hall and it said 'For the Fairest'. It came down to 3 gods: Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. They asked Zeus to judge, but he refused. He recommended Paris or Alexandros, for he was a great judge of beauty. Paris was a prince, son of Priam, the king of Troy. He was tending his father's sheep all the way on Mount Ida because Priam had been warned that he would become the ruin of his country, so he was sent away. He had been living with a nymph named Oenone there.(She will be important when Paris is about to die.)

He wasn't asked who was the fairest, but was piled on with bribes from the godesses. It was not easy. Hera offered to make him the lord of Europe and Asia, Athena offered to lead him to victory against the Greeks and lay Greece in ruins, Aphrodite offered him the fairest woman in the world. Paris a weakling and coward, as later events show, gave Aphrodite the golden apple. This is the real reason the Trojan War was fought.

Troy destroyed, and the loot and slaves taken back to Greece. And the Dorian Greeks and Sea peoples descended on Greece and the Mycenaeans displaced.

Paris was actually the one who started the Trojan War. He stole Menelaus's wife, Helen. King Priam was on his side. The Greeks ended the war by giving them a horse and attacking them. The Greeks ended the war by wining over the war.

Paris, the son of the King of Troy, seduced the wife (Helen) of a Greek king (Menelaus). Whether she went voluntary or not (Paris was supposedly the handsomest man ever) isn't well established, except that she looted the palace and took it off as a gift to Paris.

Menelaus was brother to Agamemnon, the King of Kings of Greece. Agamemnon then raised an army and attacked Troy, to bring back Helen and of course the loot. Of course the opportunity to destroy a rival kingdom and sacking the rich city of Troy played a minor :) role.

He helpd the Trojans, and therefore was against the Greeks

Aphrodite promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world - Queen Helen of Sparta.

The gods had a lot to do with the Trojan war. It was 'started' by them- the goddess Eris had a golden apple that said 'To the Fairest' on it, which engaged Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera in a beauty contest. Zeus, not wanting to pick sides, had the help of Paris to select the winner. After being offered many things by the goddesses, he chose the prize of Aphrodite's- the most beautiful girl in the world, Helen. The only problem was, she was already married. This caused the fight between the Greeks and the Trojans over Helen. Throughout the war, the gods influenced many of the heroes and chose sides.

Diomedes

The Trojan war took place two thousand years earlier.

Well to me it was all about the Trojan Horse, this is when Achilles men fled and the left a big wooden horse and Achilles and about 20 other soldiers hid inside so the king hauled it into the city as a victory prize, but at night the soldiers snuck out and opened the gates to let the entire army into the city then the war had ended as Troy was burned to the ground.

The Trojan War was ended by the Greeks using a cunning strategy rather than a specific weapon. They built a large wooden horse and left it as a supposed offering to the Trojans. However, Greek soldiers were hiding inside the horse and once it was brought into the city of Troy, they emerged and attacked, ultimately leading to the downfall of Troy.