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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 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.
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.
Who was the leader during the Trojan War?
Over-king on the Greek side was Agamemnon. The king of Troy was Priam.
Did any Trojans survive the Trojan War?
They were taken home as slaves by their conquerors, or sold locally and the proceeds distributed.
There is a 1st Century BCE story (a thousand years later) that Aeneas was able to flee Troy as it was being sacked, along with a small group of people (in the movie Troy, at the end you see Aeneas with his father on his back, getting out the back gate - setting up the sequel - wait for it). His progeny were supposedly responsible for the founding of Rome. Read The Aeneid. Julius Caesar claimed descent from Aeneas, and therefore descent from Venus who was Aeneas' mother.
What was the name of the famous Roman who hid in the Trojan horse in the city of Troy?
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.
How does Odysseus end the Trojan War?
He devised the cunning plot to smuggle soldiers in a wooden horse into the city and opened the gates to the waiting Greeks.
Is the Trojan War only Greek mythology?
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.
What were the causes of the Trojan war?
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".
According to the legend why did the Trojan war begin?
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.
What did the beauty contest have to do with the Trojan war?
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
