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Troy
Troy was a city state that was most known for the being the center of a major war and the scene of the Iliad, one of the most well known stories of the ancient Greeks.
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Troy was rebuilt nine times. Historians can only provide a rough guestimate as to the dates based on stratagraphical evidence and writings like the illiad.
This is from wikipedia
- Troy I 3000-2600 BC (Western Anatolian EB 1)
- Troy II 2600-2250 BC (Western Anatolian EB 2)
- Troy III 2250-2100 BC (Western Anatolian EB 3 [early])
- Troy IV 2100-1950 BC (Western Anatolian EB 3 [middle])
- Troy V: 20th-18th centuries BC (Western Anatolian EB 3 [late])
- Troy VI: 17th-15th centuries BC
- Troy VIh: late Bronze Age, 14th century BC
- Troy VIIa: ca. 1300-1190 BC, most likely setting for Homer's story[27]
- Troy VIIb1: 12th century BC
- Troy VIIb2: 11th century BC
- Troy VIIb3: until ca. 950 BC
- Troy VIII: around 700 BC
- Troy IX: Hellenistic Ilium, 1st century BC
Yes, I believe it was rebuilt on top of each other about 8 or 9 times.
Troy is a city which existed over 4.000 years and known as the center of ancient civilizations. For many years people believed that it was the city mentioned only in the tales and never existed until it was first found in the 19th century. Troy (Truva inTurkish) is located in Hisarlik near Canakkaleprovince where the remains of this once-great city can be visited. What was left are the remains of the destruction of Schliemann, the famous German archaeologist or a treasure hunter as some people call him. Today, an international team of German and American archaeologists bring the Troy of the Bronze Age back to life under a sponsored project by Daimler - Benz, and another Turkish team is at law wars with Russia and Germany to get back the stolen Trojan treasures.
Troy appeared in Greek and Latin literature. Homerfirst mentioned story of Troy in Iliad and Odyssey. Later, it became the most popular subject in Greek drama. The book of Virgil's Aeneid contains the best known account of the sack of Troy. In addition, there are untrue stories under the names of Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius.
In the Bronze age, Troy had a great power because of its strategic location between Europe and Asia. In the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC Troy was a cultural center. After the Trojan War, the city was abandoned from 1100 to 700 BC. About 700 BC Greek settlers began to occupy the Troas region, Troy was resettled and named as Ilion. Alexander the Greatruled the area around the 4th century BC. AfterRomans captured Troy in 85 BC, it was restored partially by Roman general Sulla and named as New Ilium. During theByzantine rule, Troy lost its importance.
The ruins of Troy were first found by Charles McLaren in 1822. The German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated Troy from 1870 to 1890. His theft of treasure from Troy and his damage to the site will be always remembered in Turkish archaeological history. Wilhelm Dorpfeld followed to excavate Troy after Schliemann. Today, a new German team is still working to rebuild Troy ruins by using new advanced technologies since 1988. There are nine levels at Troy; Troy I to V relates roughly with early Bronze Age (3000 to 1900 BC). Its inhabitants were known as Trojans in this period. Troy VI and VII were built in the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Troy VIII to IX belongs to Hellenistic andRoman Ilion (Latin Ilium). Troy was destroyed many times and rebuilt each time.
Troy is one of the most famous cities in the history, remembering us Hector, Achilles and Achaean Greeks, the sake of Helen,Paris, Agamemnon and Priam. Its story is written in every language, Trojan heroes,Achilles' heel and Odyssey became figures in poems. From Alexander the Great to Lord Byron, many important figures of the history stood on the site of the great heroes. However, people always wondered whether the Trojan War happened or not, or if there was really a wooden horse or not.
How did the wooden horse helped the Greeks defed troy?
It was not made in the Iliad.
The wooden horse (now known as the Trojan horse) was made after the events of the Iliad, in order to fool the Trojans into letting Greek troops into their city, unbeknownst to the Trojans. These Greek soldiers would then open the gates to the city, letting in the awaiting Greek army.
What was Cory and troy's relationship in fences?
if one's name is Cory then he is already gay.
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It was strained the whole time.. Cory's and Troy's relationship finally breaks when Cory tries stepping over Troy and Cory grabbing a bat and trying to hit Troy then Troy kicks him out of the house.
Who was the Wife of a Mycenaean king who was taken to Troy?
I believe you are talking about Helen, the wife of Menelaus, who was taken to Troy by Paris, who was the son of King Prium and Queen Hecuba.
Where is the Troy-Miami County Public Library in Troy located?
The address of the Troy Branch Library is: 3Rd & Kalispell, Troy, 59935 M
The heros and armies involved in the war at troy (the second one) differ in different myths.
Main breakdown:
- The Argives
- The Trojans
A larger list would be ...
- Nestor
- Agamemnon
- Menelaus
- Philoctetes
- Ajax
- Odessyus of Icatha
- Simon (odessyus' cousin)
- Diomedes
- Polynexus
- Agasthenes
- Telamonian Ajax
- Achilles
- Patroclus
- Eurybates
- Paris
- Priam
- Hector
- Aeneas
- Deiphobus
- Aphrodite (in some versions)
- Euphorbus
- Teucer
- Pandaris
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- the Mycenaeans
- The Lacedaeominians
- The Aetolians
- The archadians
- the Locrians
- the Myrmydons
- The Cretans
- The Rhodians
- The thracians
- The boetians
- The Symirans
- The Athenians
- The Spartans
- The Salamineans
- The Phoceans
...and the list goes on.
Troy is a movie (loosely) based in the Iliad. It of course is inaccurate to the story, but it is a wonderful movie.
What happened to the myrmidons after Troy?
Paris was killed during the Trojan war. Helen was won and taken back to Menelaus in Sparta.
Did Paris force Helen to run away with menelaus?
It was actually Helen of Sparta, not Troy, who went with Paris of Troy, leaving Sparta, her husband and daughter, and everything she was behind. She didn't actually become Helen of Troy until such time as she was welcomed into Trojan society as a Princess of Troy.
Helen of Sparta, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, wasn't actually kidnapped by Paris, a Prince of Troy. Helen had been promised to him by the Greek goddess Aphrodite, whom Paris had claimed was the most beautiful of all the goddesses. Naturally, like most women, this pissed of the other goddesses, Athena and Hera. Paris went to Sparta during a period when Menelaus was absent from Sparta for a funeral.
True to her word, as Aphrodite had promised, Helen fell in love with him and willingly left Menelaus and Sparta behind, along with Hermione, their 9 year old daughter (bet you didn't know where the name Hermione came from).
At this point there are conflicting testaments as to whether or not Paris and Helen actually went to Troy; some accounts have them going to Egypt, where upon learning what they had done, seized all the treasure that Paris had taken, including Helen, and waited for Menelaus to show up and reclaim his wife and gold.
By this time, Menelaus was home in Sparta, had been informed that his wife had dumped him for Orlando Bloom, and left him a lot poorer and with a kid to boot. He was not a happy camper. Having promised Menelaus that they would stand by him should Helen ever be abducted again (she had already been taken before, once when she was only 12) her former suitors, who became the Greek heroes of the Trojan War.
After getting to Troy and demanding the return of Helen and his loot, as stated previously, some accounts had Helen and Paris in Egypt, so when the Greeks showed up on the Trojan beach, King Priam of Troy (Paris' Dad) and Prince Hector (Paris' brother, and hero of Troy) told Menelaus, Odysseus, Ajax, Achilles, and all the other Greeks who had shown up for the war that they had been suckered - Paris and Helen weren't there at Troy, but had in fact eloped to sunny Egypt for a few quiet years while things "died down" a bit.
Well, things died of course - the Trojan War lasted 10 years, the Greeks unable to penetrate the high, steep walls that had kept them from getting inside the city. At that period in history, there were no great siege machines of war, Trebuchets, Catapults, or anything for breaching battlements.
After 10 years, the Greeks got tired of not winning every day, and losing their friends all the time, not to mention the deployment time away from Greece. 10 years is a long deployment. Sitting around the campfire on the beach one night, Odysseus comes up with a brilliant plan - let's build a wooden horse, hide a bunch of us inside, and send everyone else away. The Trojans just might be dumb enough to bring it inside the city to offer it to Poseidon at their temple, to rob us of OUR offering to Poseidon on the beach for a safe journey back to Greece.
So the Greek fleet sails just out of eyeball range, and leaves the wooden, hollow horse offering thingy on the beach with a lot of stinky Greek dudes inside. Not only is it cramped, it's also hot as hell, and they can't make a sound or move for fear of being discovered by the Trojans. And we won't even discuss what they did to relieve themselves during that period.
Anyway, you know the rest - the Trojans fell for the stupid trick, and dragged the horse into the city, partied all night and got falling down drunk. At which point by that time, the Greek ships had sailed back, and Odysseus, Achilles, and the rest of the Greek gang had slithered out of the horse and signaled their buddies on the beach that the Trojans had fallen for it, and that the gate was open. In other words, they signaled "Time to Rape, Pillage, and Plunder."
First of all, the Trojan War may not have been a real historical event at all, merely a Greek myth. However, if it did occur, it most likely occurred around 1200 BC.
Who are the main characters of troy?
Main characters? not sure.. but i know the major gods and goddesses
Zeus
Poseidon
Hades
Hera
Apollo
Artemis
Hephaestus
Dionysus
Aphrodite
Ares
Athena
Hermes
extra: Hestia
:D
What interesting findings have archaeologists discovered about the actual city named troy?
There is proof now that Troy did exist. Archeologist have found the city's remains in Turkey.
What city did Heinrich Schliemann discover?
Heinrich Schliemann was a pioneer in field archeology. He advocated for historical reality acceptance for places mentioned by Homer in The Odyssey and The Iliad. He was an excavator at Hissarlik, a place widely held to be Troy as well as Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.
No, Troy is a legendary city and center of the Troyan war, as described in the Iliad,one of the two Homer's epic poems.(the other one is Odyssey)
One of the most known Troyan heroes was Hector.
What did the Trojans wear to war?
the Trojan fighters were Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax the greater, Ajax the lesser, Diomedes, Idomeneus, MMenelaus, Nester and Odyseues.
What is the Troy movie all about?
The movie troy mainly follows achilles in his quest to become remembered for all eternity although the film follows several other smaller stories including the founding of the roman empire with a small scene at the end where a young man is given the sword of troy. Which is the beginings of the aneid
