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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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How did Aphrodite start the Trojan war?
She had promised prince Paris of Troy to have the most beautiful woman in the world in return for pronouncing Aphrodite the winner of the divine beauty contest. This was Helen, Queen of Sparta. She was abducted to Troy and her husband collected the Greek fleet to revenge this.
Did Helen Start the Trojan War?
You could say yes. When the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera fought over the Apple of Discord, the prince of Troy, Paris, was called to see who was the fairest. When Paris chose Aphrodite, Aphrodite gave him the married Helen, Queen of Sparta, to him as Paris' wife. When Helen's husband Menalaus found out, he was enraged and called the other city-states to aid him and fight the Trojan War. Thus the Trojan War began. After all those years Helen returned with Menalaus back to Sparta after the Greeks' victory.
Why did they have the Trojan war?
Trojan War went back to the Judgment of Paris. Paris, the Prince of Troy, was aksed to judge among three goddesses who was the most beautiful. For choosing Aphrodite, he was given as a prize the most beautiful human woman in the world. Unfortunately, that woman happened to be married to the King of Sparta, and when she fell in love with Paris and eloped with him to Troy, it was taken as a deadly insult, requiring the combined forces of the whole of the Myvcenean Peloponese (and perhaps beyond) to attack the city-state of Troy. After astalemated ten-year siege, the Greeks devised a stratagem. They built a huge wooden horse, and at night filled it with soldiers, and then withdrew their armies. The Trojans saw that they had left, and took the horse to be a parting gift from the defeated enemy. They took the horse into the city, and at night the soldiers left the horse and opened the city gates, letting in the main army who destroyed the city with the usual rapine and pillage.
That is just a little paragraph that describes why it started. It's rather childish, for starting a War over a meer women! It's almost like us Americans, we just don't know when to stop! I hope this information helps! If not, I'm sorry!
Basically it was over a women named Helen, the women who launched 1,000 ships. Paris who was the prince of troy took Helen from the King of Sparta. The King then launched War just to get her back, which started the Trojan War.
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The Greeks went on a 10-year looting expedition in Asia Minor and the adjacent islands. They started with the richest prize - the trading city of Troy. The attack failed so they went on to the rest of the area for the next nine years and pillaged it thoroughly. They then had a final attempt on Troy in the tenth year and were successful, looting it and selling the people into slavery.
On top of this there are the legendary tales of Helen and Paris, but the reality is that it came down to the poor Greek cities enriching themselves through pillaging their envied prosperous neighbours.
The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping of Helen (Eleni) of Sparta, by Paris of Troy. It is considered among the most important events in Greek mythology.
Why did the Trojan War last so long?
The legend says that the Achaians (Greeks), after an initial failed attempt on Troy, took ten years to thoroughly pillage the coast and islands of Asia Minor. They then returned in the tenth year and took the city after a brief seige.
The main ones were Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Priam, and Ajax
The only Trojan prince to survive the Trojan war?
Aeneas, who reputedly went on to Italy where his successors founded Rome. Just a legenaday story.
What happens to Patroclus in the Trojan war?
Patroclus is killed by Hector, the greatest of the Trojans.
What did Penelope have to do with the Trojan War?
Penelope was the wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus.
What day of the year was the Trojan War started?
The Trojan War is legendary. We don't know the year, much less the day. Legend places it in the 12th Century BCE. That is the extent of our knowledge.
Who is side did Hera do in the Trojan war?
Hera was strongly on the Greeks, she was a Greek goddesses.
She wounded Ares just because he was a Trojan.
What was the physical appearance of Hera in Trojan war?
In the Trojan War Hera was sided with the Greeks, against the Trojans. She was most often depicted as a young woman, old enough to be the mother adult children. Often shown surrounded with peacock feathers while wearing a crown.
What was the cause of the Trojan war?
According to the Illiad, the Trojan war began when Paris of Troy took Helen, the wife of Menelaus the King of Sparta. Paris and Helen went to Troy. Menelaus, the husband of Helen sent armies to help him attack Troy to get Helen back.
As well, Troy was an important city for trade, and the Greeks were looking for any excuse to go to war with it to gain wealth and control.
Why did Paris kill Achilles during the Trojan War?
because Achilles was a huge powerhouse for the Greeks as he was almost invincible
also Achilles-killed his closest and most important brother Hector, whose last words were that Paris would kill Achilles
