Trojan War

Many people were in the Trojan war. For starters all of Greek and Troy, then there was King Priam, he was the King of Troy and father of Prince Hector and Prince Paris. Then there was King Agamemnon, he ruled all of Greece; he also had his brother who was King Menelaus who married Queen Helen. In the war Helen plays a huge role for she leaves with Prince Paris and then Menelaus and Agamemnon send a thousand ships to bring her back. Then Archilles comes in, he's know as an unbelievable figher. He fights for the Greeks for fame and just to be remembered in history. Thetis is Archilles mother, Patroclus is Archilles cousin. Prince Hector was the heir to the throne of Troy. He was said to be the greatest warrior despite Archilles being a demi-god or whatever. Hector was maried to Andromache and they had a son. Of course later in the movie Hector is killed by Archilles while Archilles is enraged with the death of his cousin Patroclus who was killed by Hector. Although Hector thought that Patroclus was Archilles. Homer you could say was a huge part of the Trojan war. Homer wrote the 'Illiad' and the 'Odyssey.' These were two epic poems that he wrote about the Trojan war. Another character I just remembered was Odysseus, Odysseus was like the only person outside Archilles mother and cousin that could get through to Archilles. Another person that caught my attention in the Trojan war was Briseis. In the movie she was the lover of Archilles after being captured by the Greeks and she was given to him. However I don't really know if that really happend in reality. I know for a fact she was captured by the Greeks, and that she was given to Archilles I'm not sure about her actual role in Archilles love life. Anyway those are the people off the top of my head. I hope this answers your question.

Over-king on the Greek side was Agamemnon. The king of Troy was Priam.

There was no Roman in the Trojan horse. The Trojan horse was an element in a fictional story written by Virgil in his Latin epic poem The Aeneid. According to the poems over 3,000 Greek (not Roman) soldiers were inside the horse, with Odysseus as the leader. The Trojan war may or may not have happened. Answer 2. Odysseus had this fruitful idea.

He devised the cunning plot to smuggle soldiers in a wooden horse into the city and opened the gates to the waiting Greeks.

The sources For the Trojan War come from the bards who sang the epic poems about it. There is no direct historical source, and the site archaeology is confusing. A myth is a fictional story made up to explain things about which nothing is known - eg the Creation Myth. A legend is a traditional story believed to be true. History is an analysis of evidence which attempts of produce a factual account. Obviously the Trojan War is legend. From the bardic material available, it seems that there was a decade of concerted piratical raiding by the Greek peoples of the coast of what is now called Turkey. At the end of it, when the coast had been thoroughly pillaged, a trading city called Troy (or Ilium) was captured and destroyed. The story made popular telling around the fires at night at a time when there was no television.

It is believed that, at the godly wedding feast of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, the goddess of strife, Eris, who had not been invited to the celebration, decided to cause mischief in retribution for this slight, by leaving a mysterious golden apple at the banquet, with a note addressed "for the fairest one". This gift immediately created conflict between Athene, Aphrodite and Hera who each claimed the apple as their own. Zeus, who knew better than to decide the matter himself, suggested that the best man to judge would be the handsomest man on earth, a young prince of Troy named Paris, who was currently a guest in the house of King Menelaus of Sparta. The goddesses appeared before a bewildered Paris, as he rested alone on a hilltop, and they demanded upon him to decide the contest. Each of the goddesses bribed Paris with a gift in return for the apple, though it was the gift offered by Aphrodite, the offer of making the most beautiful woman in the world his bride, that swayed Paris to declare Aphrodite the winner. This was the myth of "The Judgement of Paris". It so happened that the most beautiful woman in the world was Helen, the wife of Paris' host Menelaus. Paris quickly stole Helen away from Menelaus and fled back to his home city of Troy. Menelaus was outraged by the stealing of his wife, and called upon his brother, Agamemnon, to lead a military campaign to recapture her. Many years ago, prior to Helen's marriage to Menelaus, a pact had been sworn among Helen's many suitors to come to the aid of whoever would be chosen as Helen's husband, so as to prevent quarrels from elevating into battles once Helen's husband was actually chosen. Agamemnon now called upon the members of this pact, including Odysseus, Ajax, Idomeneus and Patroclos, to stand by their oath and launch their navies against Paris and the city of Troy for stealing away Helen and to retrieve her. It is for this reason that Christopher Marlowe describes Helen of Troy as being "the face that launched a thousand ships".

Helen left her husband Menelaus king of Sparta to run away with Paris, looting his possessions to take with her to make herself more attractive. The Greeks retaliated by mounting a 10-year looting expedition of Asia Minor.

well when aphrodite won the beauty contest over Athena and hera, in return, aphrodite gave priam Helen, and made her beautiful for him, then helens husband menelaus got angry and started the war

The story of the war provided a common cultural heritage

The daughter of Zeus and Hera was Eris, the goddess of discord. She wasn't invited to a wedding so she brought a golden apple and said it was for the fairest goddess. Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena argued over it and asked Paris to make the decision. Paris chose Aphrodite because she promised he could marry the most beautiful girl in the world. He chose Helen but her husband didn't like the idea and the war started.

The Greek won The Trojan War. They also destroyed Troy.

The Trojans were of the city of Troy on the Asian side of the Dardanelles Strait. The legend is that they had allies from other cities in Asia Minor. Their opponents were Greek raiders, who were conducting several years of coordinated piratical raids on cities on the west coast of Asia Minor and the adjacent islands. The legend is that, after n initial failed attempt on Troy, they pillaged the rest of the coast, and in the tenth year returned to beseige Troy, which they captured after several months.

The gods split into two sides Greeks and Trojans. Athena was on the Greek side and came up with a plan to hide some Greek soldiers into a wooden horse. they gave the horse to the Trojans and the Greek soldiers inside waited until all the Trojan soldiers fell asleep and attacked. then the Greeks won because of Athena's smart plan.Odysseus also was with the Trojan horse because Athena helped him come up with the idea so they both get credit on the idea.

According to the mythology Eris (goddess of strife) wasn't invited to a wedding so she gate crashed. She left a golden apple that was labelled 'to the fairest' and there was a big fight between Aphrodite, Athena and Hera who all claimed the apple. None of the other gods wanted to choose sides so Zeus called a mortal called Paris, a Trojan, to decide. Each of the goddesses bribed him. Athena offered him wisdom and fighting skill, Hera offered control of Asia and Aphrodite offered Helen of Sparta, wife of the King of Sparta and the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris took Aphrodite's bribe even though Helen was married. Her husband was furious and invaded Troy so that he could take her back.

Legend has it that it was 10 years.

It is thought to have been in the 12th Century BCE.

His name was Patroclus.

If it actually existed, the Trojan Horse was built on the plains of Anatolia in front of the City of Troy at the end of the Trojan War, somewhere around 1200 BC. There is no agreement on the actual year.

Zeus' wife is Hera the goddess of woman and fertility. Hera was angry that Paris did not choose her but instead chose Aphrodite.

The legend is that it ended when the Greeks captured the city through Odysseus' ruse of getting soldiers inside in the belly of a wooden horse-god, then opening the gates during the night. The reality is that we don't know just what really happened. Homer's story was written down in the later 8th C BCE (after writing was invented), four hundred years after the events reported. Homer's was but one version. The bards used to make up the story as they went along, each version therefore different but following a theme. The material covered spans an even longer period. The hero Ajax was dead before the war occurred. The boar tusk helmet mentioned was in fashion two centuries before the war, and a lot of the background setting reflects social and political conditions of Homer's 8th Century. Also remember that the Iliad is not the story of the Trojan War. It is a few weeks of the alleged tenth year, when the Greeks arrived at Troy to have a second go at it after an abortive attempt years earlier. Intervening raids on other cities and islands are mentioned. However the subject of Iliad is 'The Wrath of Achilles' - in other words a petty spat bettween Achilles and uber-King Agamemnon over a slave girl. It ends with Hector's death at Achilles' hand, but Troy still going strong. We have to piece in other later bits from fragmentary later sources including pottery depictions and later tragedy plays and minor epics. The best guess is that there was a decade of piratical raids by the Greeks on the coast of Asia Minor and the islands. When the countryside had been thoroughly looted, they had to try the harder targets of walled cities. Troy was an obvious one as it had good revenues from servicing the trading fleets which harboured waiting for the right winds and tides to get through the Dardanelles strait to and from the Black Sea. When Troy was looted, there was little else to do but go home.

The Trojan war ended when the Greeks left a huge wooden horse outside the gates of Troy. (The Greeks couldn't get past the walls of Troy) The Trojans, seeing the horse, thought it was an offering to the Gods, and wheeled it into the city; they saw that the Greeks were gone, so presumed they had given up and gone home. There were great celebrations; the Trojans didn't realize that the horse had a hollow belly, and that inside, were Greek soldiers waiting until nightfall to emerge from the horse. Night came, and the Trojans were all asleep and drunk from the celebrations, so they didn't notice as the Greeks came out from the horse, and slaughtered them all while they were unconscious. Some women were taken by the Greeks to go back to Sparta etc. as spoils (too unpleasant to mention,) particularly King Priam's (Troy's king) daughters, and wife. King Priam was killed, along with his sons. Helen (the woman the war was fought about - supposedly daughter of Zeus (in swan form) and the queen of Sparta; because of her supposed astounding beauty,) was taken back by Menelaus, and she lived out her days with her abandoned daughter Hermione and her husband (Menelaus.) Troy was razed to the ground; burned by the Greeks.

The Trojan war was probably real but not exactly as Homer (a greek poet) or the Greeks that wrote it down told it.

The Greeks went on a 10 year looting expedition around the Aegean Sea littoral, eventually capturing the richest prize - Troy - in the final year.