Trojan War

The Achaeans .

In the Iliad, the Greek Catalogue lists twenty-nine contingents under 46 captains, accounting for a total of 1,186 ships. Using the Boeotian figure of 120 men per ship results in a total of 142,320 men transported to the Troad. They are named by various ethnonyms and had lived in 164 places described by toponyms. The majority of these places have been identified and were occupied in the Late Bronze Age. The terms Danaans, Argives and Achaeans or the sons of the Achaeans are used for the army as a whole. In his Library, Apollodorus lists thirty contingents under 43 leaders with a total of 1013 ships, Hyginus lists 1154 ships, although the total is given as only 245 ships.

***The Catalogue of Ships (Ancient Greek: νεῶν κατάλογος, neōn katalogos) is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's Iliad (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy.

Athena supported the Greeks (Achaeans).

Its proper name is the Iliad. In Classical Attic; sometimes it is referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium (Ilium and Troas was the archaic and Classical period Greek names that Troy was known by).

The name of the poem, meaning 'of Ilion', is an ellipsis for 'a book on Ilion'. So no one named the poem this way, that was just how the Greeks referred to it (because of its immense popularity, everybody knew which book on Ilion you were talking about). In present form, the name was probably first employed in an extant written text by Herodotus (II, 116 sq.).

The war was sparked by the theft of Helen the wife of Menelaus of Sparta. The main objective contrary to some flawed and biased opinions was to take back Helen and punish the Trojans for their insolence after initial requests for Helen to be returned had been declined.

Sacking cities during the Homeric bronze age archaic time was a method of waging war. It was how they fed their troops and kept up supplies and how the military was 'paid' for their service. 3,000 years ago it was the way things were. These were ancient warrior cultures and can't be judged by modern standards to fit a modern narrative.

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The main objective of the Greek looting expedition in Asia Minor was the richest city - Troy.

Trojan is a the adjective of Troy.

Agamemnon.

The legend goes that Paris was visiting Sparta, where Helen was wife of its king Menelaus. She took a fancy to him, and ran off with him, stealing a lot of the family wealth to buy Paris' ongoing favour. The Greeks didn't really worry to much about someone they called 'much manned Helen' (the implication being that she got around quite a bit), they were more concerned about the money. When besieging Troy, the Greeks who weren't making much progress were prepared to negotiate. Trojan king Priam said he would give the woman back. The Greeks responded 'what about the money' Priam said 'no way', so negation ceased and the siege went on. That part of the Iliad puts their values in perspective, and a mere woman wasn't the objective. After Troy was looted, Menelaus just took her home and life went on, subsidised by the 10 years of widespread looting.

So no, Helen was not kidnapped, she ran off most willingly, stealing Sparta's wealth. But this is all part of an entertaining story which the bards of Greece concocted different versions of and made a good living out of for 500 years. If indeed there was a Greek invasion, it was directed at looting Asia Minor over a ten year period. The final attack on the richest prize - Troy - lasted only a few weeks at the end of 10 year rampage around the eastern Aegean Sea.

It occurred outside the city of Troy.

That they needed to launch a surprise attack is the reason why it was necessary for the Greeks to remain quiet inside the Trojan Horse. The Greeks planned to emerge from the hollow interior of their giant wooden horse when the Trojans were sleeping unarmed after celebrating the apparent withdrawal of Troy's assailants. Any sound would alert the Trojans to the fact that the horse was hollow, and filled with an armed elite expeditionary force, and that the warriors could be trapped inside for burning alive or dragged out for torturing and killing.

He pretended to be mad and sowed his fields with salt instead of seeds

no, was fought between troy and Greece

Yes.

The Trojan war was started when Paris (the prince of Troy and son of King Priam) visited Agamemnon and met Agamemnon's wife Helen. Helen was considered to be the most beautiful woman in all of Greece and Paris fell in love with her. He convinced her to escape with him to Troy and leave her husband. When Agamemnon discovered that Paris had taken her, he gathered a massive force and sailed for the city of Troy to retrieve her.

The story goes that, having seen off the looting Greek raiders, they fell for a fake Greek evacuation, relaxed their defence of their walls, and the returning Greeks took the city.

Three goddesses: Aphrodite, Hera, and Pallas Athena, saw a golden apple, and wanted it to be theirs. Whoever was to receive the golden apple, was to be named the "fairest of them all." Zeus, as well as many others, refused to be the judge of this. Paris was an excellent judge of beauty and so it was settled that he would do the job. Paris was amazed at all of the beautiful women, but he ended up choosing Aphrodite. He then gave the golden apple to her, and the Judgement of Paris started the Trojan War.

They didn't . They came after the Trojan War.

Because Agamemnon took the girl Achilles loved.

The Greeks won by making a huge wooden horse and offering it to the trojans as a gift but had a lot of troops in it so when the trojans took it in and went to sleep and the Greeks popped out and killed them all.

P.S. plan made by Odysseus

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.

They destroyed the top of the gate arch. The horse was too tall.

Odysseus tried to avoid the Trojan War because he had a peaceful kingdom and a wife and son. He didn't want to leave them. He also had received a prophecy when he was quite young that stated that if Odysseus was to partake in the war, he would not return for twenty years. To avoid being forced to honor his previous promise to Menelaus, he dressed in his finest, took a plow, a bull, and a donkey, and went to his fields and spread salt on the fertile ground (salt prevents any further growth), pretending to think it was seed. In summary, he pretended to be insane. His plan failed because Menelaus (suspecting Odysseus's plan) threw Odysseus's son in the path of the plow. Odysseus forgot his plan and saved his son, but had to go to war.

The the Trojan prince Paris had abducted the Queen of Sparta to Troy.