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Trojan War
The Trojan War was a major event in Greek mythology. According to the stories, it was triggered when Paris, the prince of Troy, either seduced or kidnapped the beautiful Helen away from her husband, the king of Sparta. The war lasted twenty years.
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Was A lexander the great Spartin or Trojan?
neither he was a greek general and king(son of Phillips the 2th)
Who is the survivor of the Trojan war?
From Troy, only Aeneas and his family. He was also supposedly the one who created Rome, which grew to be the Greeks' biggest enemy. Quite a few Greeks escaped.
According to Homer, Aeneas had with him others besides his family, including builders, healers, and others. His own wife, however, was killed during the sack of Troy. The Trojan survivors fled in ships, and possibly numbered a few hundred in all, according to Homer. Few Greeks made it home, many were shipwrecked and drowned in fierce storms for desecrating the various temples of Troy. Odysseus did, after ten years of wandering. Agamemnon returned also, but was murdered by his adulterous wife's lover.
Who won the war in the Trojan war?
The Greeks won by using a giant hollow wooden horse with Greeks inside to get inside the Trojans defenses so they could open the gates
Prince whose decision led to the Trojan war?
Well, based on myth, the Trojan War actually began when Aris threw a bitchfit about not getting invited to a wedding.
Why did priam start the Trojan war?
Well it started when the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera had a beauty contest. They chose Paris of Troy to decide by giving the winner a golden apple. But they all bribed him. Athena offered wisdom, and Hera offered all of Asia. But Paris chose Aphrodite who gave Helen, the most beautiful women in the world. But Helen was the king's wife. She magically fell in love with Paris and secretly left with Trojans to marry him. The king thought that Paris kidnapped her, and declared war on Troy. I guess you know what happened next.
How did the Trojan horse lead the Greeks to victory?
The Greeks pretended to give up and sent the Trojan horse a gift to Trojans to show their defeat. However, they actually had a plan. Inside the horse hid the Greek's army. When the Trojans celebrated victory and fell asleep, the Greeks crept out at night and burnt and destroyed Troy.
What is another famous story of the Trojan war besides The Iliad?
The Little Illiad or the Illiopersis. Or any other of the works which compose the Epic Cycle.
If The Odyssey was a myth was the trojan war true?
A myth is a made-up story. A legend is a traditional story, short on real evidence but held to be true.
The Odyssey is a legend. Some of it is obviously fabricated and embellished, but parts may be true. We can pick a lot of the fabrications, but of the rest we just don't know what might be the true bits.
Things like the Odyssey and Iliad were sung by the bards for hundreds of years before cursive writing was invented, so there is no specific source material and each bard had his own versions, so there were hundreds of variations of the central theme.
Did Hecuba have a role in the Trojan war?
Hecuba is the wife of Priam, king of Troy, with whom she had 19 children according to Homer and to some other versions she only beared 14.
These are the children that she supposedly bore:
Daughters
- Creusa
- Laodice
- Polyxena
- Cassandra
Sons
- Hector
- Paris (Alexander)
- Deiphobus
- Helenus
- Pammon
- Polites
- Antiphus
- Hipponous
- Polydorus
- Troilus
How is Odysseus connected with the Trojan war?
Odysseus was the king of Ithaca and leader of the that contingent of the Greek forces besieging Troy. He was known as the smartest of all the Greek commanders. Whenever the Greeks needed a plan they turned to Odysseus. It was he who conceived the Trojan Horse.
How did the judgment of Paris start the Trojan war?
As thanks for letting her win, Aphrodite helped Paris abduct, Helen, Queen of Sparta, to Troy.
What city of Troy was the city in the Trojan War?
The city Troy was destroyed in the Trojan War; its ruins have been located along the coast of what is now called Turkey in Asia Minor.
Another angle:
Troy Level VI.
How long did the Trojan war go no and for what reason the war began?
well i really don't know the exact date of how long did the Trojan war last for.but the real reason of why it began is that Paris stole Helen from where she lived. so then the people of that city wanted to find her, so then they fought in order to get her back
Who were the gods and goddesses of the Trojan war?
Apollo sent a plague on the Greeks. But he stopped Laokoon from warning the Trojans about the wooden horse. Athena is on the side of the Greeks;
Aphrodite and Ares support the Trojans.
The gods took great interest in the war. Poseidon, Hera, and Athena aided the Greeks, while Aphrodite and Ares favored the Trojans.
Apollo was also involed in the war.
What is the tragic irony of the Trojan War?
The tragic irony of the Trojan War is that though it was fought over Helen, who was young and beautiful, by the time they rescued her ten years later, she was old and ugly.
What happens at the end of the nine years of the Trojan war with neither side victorious?
The Greeks, having pillaged the coast and islands of western Asia Minor, came back to the riches prize, Troy, which they captured by a ruse then looted and destroyed it and sold the survivors into slavery.
Two facts about the Trojan war?
1. It took place around 1300 BC
2. Was waged against the city of Troy.
Athena and Artemis supported the Trojans, Aphrodite the Greeks.
