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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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What is the timeline of the Trojan War?
1200 BC - 332 BC IRON AGE : Start of the Trojan War
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1200 BC The Mask of Agamemnon, Schliemann 1880
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1200 BC Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having "the face that launched a thousand ships"
800 BC Homer, Greek Poet
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800 BC The Iliad, Homer
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530 BC - 480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta
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500 BC - 449 BC The Persian Wars
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495 BC - 429 BC Pericles, Leader of Athens
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490 BC Battle of Marathon
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484 BC - 425 BC Herodotus, Father of History
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431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
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70 BC - 1 BC Virgil, Roman Poet
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43 BC - 17 Ovidius, Roman Poet
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29 BC The Aeneid, Virgil
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What happens to Achilles in the Trojan war?
Achilles was dipped into the River Styx from his heel when he was a baby by his mother Thetis, which allowed him to become nearly invincible. His only weakness was his heel. Achilles was in war and fought for the Greeks. He got shot with an arrow through his heel and it killed him.
How did Ajax die in the Trojan War?
Legend has it that he suicided after shaming himself while temporarily deranged, after Odysseus won a competition between them for the dead Achilles' armour. Following the chronology of his forbears, he would have been dead by the time of the Trojan War. The bards introduced him into their story of the Trojan War to have yet another great hero.
The Greeks grew weary of the tedious war. Athena was one of the goddess that Paris did not choose. She inspired the Greeks to build a giant wooden horse as a way of tricking the Trojans into opening their gates.
Which Greek woman started the Trojan War?
The legend is that Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta absconded with visiting prince Paris (Alexander) of Troy, adding injury to insult by smuggling out a large part of Menelaus' portable property with her.
Menelaus appealed to his brother king Agamemnon of Argos, who gathered together a confederation of Greeks (Archaeans, Danaans) with the prospect of plundering the Asia Minor coast, including Troy.
Who kidnaps Helen to begin the Trojan War in the story of The Iliad?
No kidnap - the woman went quite willingly, and stole her husband's property to take with her and Paris (Alexander) prince of Troy.
Who was blamed for the Trojan war?
Oh, this is sooooo easy. Prince Paris of Troy and Queen Helen of Sparta. Paris took off with Helen. Her husband King Menelaus lauches one-thousand ships with the help of his brother King Agamemnon who rules all Greece. They start a war with Troy, Troy falls, Greece wins. Archilles dies.. it was basically Paris's fault. He took Helen with him to Troy.
Why do you think the Trojan War was recounted in an epic?
I think it was probably because of how inspiring it was. The Trojan war was a war that enveloped most of the kingdoms in the entire known world. At that time you were either for or against Troy. Everyone was united in one way or another. As an artist of some form, how could you not be inspired to retell and glorify such a magnificent event in humanity?
Who were the people in Trojan War?
The legend uses the words Archaians and Danaans - the early inhabitants of the Greek peninsula and islands. For the other side, they were the peoples who inhabited western Asia Minor and the adjacent islands. The focus was the city of Troy, which was located beside the Dardanelles strait, and had become rich supplying trading ships transiting between the Black and Aegean Seas. The legend is unreliable, as it reflects political and social conditions of 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 reflects 8th Century BCE Dark Age Greece, in which the Iliad's reputed composer, Homer, lived.
How does Agamemnon return from the Trojan War?
With a lot of loot and the Trojan princess Cassandra as his slave in tow. His wife Clytmnestra is jealous and has her lover kill him. Work out the moral values in that one.
What is the story of Queen of Troy cause of Trojan War?
It was not the Queen of Troy - she had nothing to do with the the cause of the war. It was 'much manned Helen'. Helen was wife of Spartan king Menelaus. Visiting prince of Troy Paris (Alexander) got her to come back to Troy with him, also smuggling out a lot of Menelaus' wealth. Menelaus called on his brother Agamemnon, king of Argos for help, so they organised all the neghbouring kingdoms into a piratical expedition to Asia Minor, and set about looting the area. When after 10 years they had cleaned out the coast and islands, they invested the only place left worth looting, Troy. After the Greeks gained the upper hand, king Priam of Troy offered to give Helen back, but the Greeks demanded also Menelaus' property which was more important. Priam refused, so the seige continued, and after the fall of the city, Menelaus took Helen home along with the loot as compensation.
What was the name of the city defeated in the Trojan War?
Troy (in Latin, Ilium, hence the epic poem The Iliad)
How many Greek soldiers were in the Trojan War?
On the basis of the number of ships in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, the historian Thucidydes (5th Century BCE) estimates 120,000, of whom he says at least half would have to have been over the other side of the Dardanelles on the Gallipoli Peninsula growing food to support the force.
When did Achilles die in the Trojan War?
Legend says he died in the tenth year of the war in front of Troy, from an arrow of Paris.
What is the summary of the Trojan war?
This war started as a quarrel as which goddess was the most beautiful. The goddesses were Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. One day, a golden apple saying, To The Most Beautiful Goddess, arrived at Olympus where the gods and goddesses lived. None of the male gods wanted to judge which goddess was more beautiful than the other so Zeus, the king of Olympus, looked down to the mortal world and picked a random shepherd called Paris to judge instead. Paris found it very hard to judge who was more beautiful as the goddesses were all very beautiful. The goddesses offered Paris gifts if he would choose them. Hera offered power and ruling of Asia, Aphrodite a true love, and Athena, wisdom in all battles. Paris chose Aphrodite. Basically, a gorgeous princess in Greece called Helen fell in love with Paris but her husband, Menelaus was outraged. The 2 couple escaped to Troy, Paris' town but by then, Menelaus had declared war on Troy. The war lasted for many years as the walls of the city was strong and Menelaus would not give up on Helen. This is where the Trojan Horse comes in the story. A clever soldier fighting for Greece, Odysseus thought of an idea guided by Athena. Odysseus made a large, empty wooden horse enough to hold many men. The Greeks pretended to surrender and left Troy that night. However, they left the large horse in Troy. When the Trojans came out to look at the horse, Sinon, a Greek soldier came to the Trojans and begged for mercy. He told them that the Greeks had left him behind, which they hadn't of course and said this. The Greeks has given up on Helen and now returned to their country but made a wooden horse for Athena. The Greeks knew that the Trojans would give the horse to Athena themselves to get Athena's blessing. So they did. At night, the soldiers in the horse crept out and attacked the city. The Trojans lost in the end.
Between whom was the Trojan war fought?
it was fought between the armies of Greece led by king agamemnon and troy led by king priam
Was Achilles a Trojan in the Trojan war?
Achilles fought on the Greek's side, not the Trojan's.
No, Archilles was not a Trojan, nor was he a Greek. He lived on the island of Crete with his mother, and Crete was a nuertal territory. Although in the movie with Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom he may have at the end tried to help save a Trojan woman he himself was not one.
Is the Trojan War based on fact?
We don't know. It came from an oral tradition of an attack by the Greeks (Achaians) on the islands and coast of Asia Minor. This tradition was used by bards who made up poems which they sang as entertainments on their circuit of towns and cities (very popular before TV and movies). They made up the poems during the performance, using stock phrases around a central theme. Versions were written down after syllabic writing was invented in the 8th Century BCE. The version we have, attributed to one Homer, probably dates about 725 BCE, with the events centred on the 12th Century BCE.
Like all legendary oral tales, there are probably facts in there somewhere. Distortions of oral stories accelerate, and after about three generations, without supportive evidence from other sources, is so corrupted that it is difficult to discover the facts from the fictions and exaggerations. As our written source came from nearly five hundred years after the supposed event, and the bards made a point of not only telling different versions to please audiences, but also varied their own versions, the distortions are much multiplied. And Homer's version itself was continually modified in written form.
So what is fact in the story - we can only guess. Ajax was dead before the reputed start of the war. The political conditions depicted are in reality those of 8th Century BCE Greece. The Boar's tooth helmet mentioned comes from 14th Century BCE.
The best guess is that the Greeks (Achaians) organised a coordinated series of pirate raids on the coast and islands of Asia Minor. After an initial failed attempt on Troy, they pillaged the rest of the area over a period of about ten years, and then came back for another go at Troy, which succeeded.
