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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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Who was Hector from the Trojan War?
Hector was a Trojan prince, the son of King Priam and his queen, Hecuba. He was commander of the Trojans in the Trojan War. Hector was killed in single combat with Achilles. There is at present no proof that Hector or someone like him really existed, but most myth has its basis in reality. Please click on the related link below to read more.
What happened to Odysseus after the Trojan war?
He spent the next ten years getting home. It is the story of the Odyssey.
What is the effect of death of Hector in Trojan war?
It was pretty much the end of the war for the Trojans because it was believed that without a hero, like Achilles or Hector, that the war could not be won. Basically they believed that if the other side had a hero and you didn't that you wouldn't win.
What was Odysseus influences on the Trojan war?
odysesseus thought up the idea of the Trojan horse
in the movie-odysesseus was the one who convinced Achilles to fight, and that made a difference
Negative outcomes of the Trojan War?
While the Achaians returned home loaded with loot and slaves, and provided good tales for the bards to entertain people with, they faced a weakened homefront. Peoples were on the move into their territory, and Greece entered a Dark Age for half a millennium.
The littoral cities of Asia Minor were also devastated by the 10-year looting spree. The area came back to life only by the Greeks sending their growing excess population to form colonies on the coast of Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
And these overseas Greeks became a perpetual problem, as various empires expanded into Asia Minor - the mainland Greeks supported the Greek cities there, which embroiled them with problems from first Persia, and then much later the Ottoman Empire.
It was eventually resolved after World War 1 in 1923 CE when the Greek population was evacuated to mainland Greece. The Spartans had suggested this solution in 479 BCE after the Xerxes invasion was repulsed - 2,400 years earlier, but it was not taken up.
What was the end result of the Trojan War?
Troy was destroyed and its populace enslaved.
Greece was meanwhile taken over by invading tribes and sea peoples.
Did the greek people win the Trojan war?
odysessus thought up the idea of putting soldiers inside a giant wooden horse left in front of the Trojan gate as a peace offering. the trojans brought the horse inside, thus the Greeks were able to open the gates and let all the Greeks in for a midnight surprise attack
so yes, the greek people win
Did troy or the Greeks win the Trojan war?
According to Homer's epics, the Greeks won the Trojan war by using a wooden horse, all of the soldiers climbed into it, so when the Trojans brought it into their city, the Greeks clambered out in the middle of the night and ambushed the city.
Where was Cassandra of the Trojan War born?
As legend says she was the daughter of king Priam and queen Hecuba of Troy, we presume she was born in Troy.
What gods were on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War?
It is hard to give a complete list, as the gods, being gods, were capricious and fell in or out with each side for various reasons. Some Greek-supporters were Athene, Hera, Hermes, Hephaestos, Poseidon, Thetis.
According to the only known source, the Iliad by Homer, the Trojan War lasted for ten years.
What is the climax of the Trojan War?
The destruction of all the settled areas along the coast of Asia Minor and adjacent islands by the Greek Achaeans came to an end after ten years, not a climax, with the sack of the last of its major cities, Troy in the 12th Century BCE. Thereafter there was a great movement of peoples through the eastern Mediterranean. The Greek Dorians moved into the Peloponnese and Crete, the Greek Ionians colonised the Asia Minor coast, the 'Sea Peoples' spread to the Levant and the Islands. This was the Dark Age of Greece, which lasted to the 8th Century BCE, about the time of Homer.
What did the soldiers eat during the Trojan War?
Mainly bread, vegetables and fruit. On the Greek side, the 5th Century BCE historian Thucydides postulated that, with 120,000 to feed, half the force had to be farming on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the other side of the Dardanelles strait to keep up a food supply after they had looted everything available on the Asia Minor coast and islands.
Who was the Trojan war fought between?
Sparta versus Troy. Because Paris of Troy took Helen, King Menelaus' wife.
What did King Priam do in the Trojan war?
King Priam was the ruler of Troy during the Trojan War. He played a passive role, primarily seeking peace and diplomacy to end the conflict. Priam famously pleaded with the Greek hero Achilles to return the body of his son, Hector, for a proper burial. This display of compassion humanized Priam and highlighted the tragic nature of the war.
When was the Trojan war fought?
The war lasted for ten years and it has been traditionally dated from 1194 to 1184 BC.
Eventually Sparta did, Meleaus took back Helen and killed her, and Agamemnon concoured another city but when he got home his wife killed him in the bath tub.
What people fought in the Trojan War?
The Trojans, more specifically, Paris, Hector, and all of the Trojan army.
Greeks from all around including Agamemnon, Achilles, and Odysseus.
Who was Paris in the Trojan war?
Paris was one of the princes of Troy, specifically the one who stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. This event sparked the Trojan war when Menelaus asked his brother Agamemnon for help getting her back.
Paris is viewed as a weak character, using a bow and avoiding close combat like the major heroes of mythology. This skill, although looked down upon, is used to defeat Achilles, who dies from an arrow through his heel which some accounts say was shot by Paris. He eventually dies in the Trojan war.
Is the Trojan War a true story?
Accounts of the Trojan War are legendary (ie a traditional story believed to be true). The story has been built up from a diversity of sources, from the epic Iliad (which covers a few weeks of the closing stages) through later plays, passing references in other writings, and pottery paintings.
The legend is unreliable, as it reflects political and social conditions covering about six centuries, built up from the repertoire of the bards who composed and sang the epic tales such as the Iliad. Much of the content, purportedly describing 12th Century BCE events, really reflects Dark Age Greece of the 8th Century BCE, in which the Iliad's reputed composer, Homer, lived. Indeed there were many different versions of the story by a variety of bards, who made up their own versions, and even varied their own versions. Even the archaeological excavations of the site traditionally held to be that of Troy (Ilium) are inconclusive.
The best which can be said is that there was apparently a coordinated series of pirate raids by the Achaeans (Greeks) on the coast and islands of Asia Minor in the 12th Century BCE, lasting about ten years. This culminated in the sack of Troy.
The rest is based on oral transmission which, after about three generations, becomes so corrupted that it is impossible to determine which is fact and which is fiction and embellishment. Even when Homer's version was written down, it was edited and changed so heavily over the centuries that we don't know what he actually wrote. Much of the supplementary stories comes from later plays and pottery paintings.
