Troy

Liam Neeson plays Zeus in Clash of the Titans (2010 remake)

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."

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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.

yes

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

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There is proof now that Troy did exist. Archeologist have found the city's remains in Turkey.

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.

On the Dardanelles Strait.

the Trojan fighters were Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax the greater, Ajax the lesser, Diomedes, Idomeneus, MMenelaus, Nester and Odyseues.

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

Ancient Olympic games were sports competitions held between different city states of Greece starting from 776 BC. These also included Athens, Heliopolis and Sparta.

you probably think that I'm mad but the modern name for eboriensis is actualy.........................YORK(or Yorkshire)!

According to Homer, ten years, but it should be remembered that Homer may have been more of a storyteller than a historian, and the actual Trojan War might have been longer or shorter.

Greek avarice. The Achaeans (Greeks) went on a ten year looting expedition around the coast of Asia Minor. After an initial failed attempt on the richest city, Troy, they came back in the tenth year of pillaging for another crack at Troy, succeeding this time, stripping and destroying the city and selling its population into slavery.

They were called Trojan's because Troy....Trojan's....? does it sound the same?

Records from the Plinys told of where ancient Pompeii and Herculanium stood, so in went the archeaologists

Well, in 1870 a German called Heinrich claimed that he had found the remains of Troy, in Hisarlik. Though he was never able to prove it.
troy is located in present day turkey on the black sea. this gives a great advantage to the trade routes and made troy a crossroad.

Troy.

St. Augustine

The Trojans were Turks. This claim is based on four factors: 1. Information of Old European authors, who write about the Turkic origins of the Trojans. The Fredegar Chronicle of the 7th century, Gesta Francorum of the 12th century, Tyreli William of the 12th century, Andrea Dandalo of the 14th century and many others considered the Turks to have descended from the Turcos of the Trojan origin. Felik Fabri, a German author, referred the Turkic history of Troy to the older period - to the time of Teucros.

Giovanni Mario Filelfo informs in his work "Amyris" that Sultan Mehmed the 2nd presented his victory over Greeks as a triumph of justice. According to him, with the conquest of Istanbul the Turks revenged the Greeks who had once occupied it.

Sultan Mehmed, the Turkish sultan, who was well-informed about the Turkic origins of Troy, was right to consider the conquest of Istanbul as vengeance for Troy. Later in the 20th century Mustafa Kemal Ataturk considered his victory on foreign invaders as vengeance for Ektor, a Trojan hero, the son of the last Trojan king - Priam.

In fact these Turkish victories were not at all invasion, but liberation of old motherland and vengeance for Troy of which evidence the European sources of 7th-15th centuries.

After Troy was destroyed by the Greeks, its population migrated in different directions, among which two of them are of particular interest: those who migrated to Italy founded the Etruscan civilization and those who settled in the north of Europe were dealt with in old Germanic sagas as the Turkic kings of Sweden and Norway.

The second factor to prove the Turkic origins of the Trojans is the Etruscan writings that has been deciphered by Ch.Garasharli through Old Turkic languages. The Etruscans are known to have descended from the Trojans who had migrated to Italy after the collapse of Troy.

Some European researchers yet in the previous centuries having found Turkic words in the Etruscan language, considered it to be of Turkic origin. They could not however go further on into the texts, as their translation needed a deeper knowledge of Old Turkic languages which could serve as key to the Etruscan writings. It was done by Garasharli in his researches.

Garasharli is right to say that the old European sources had no reason to fabricate false stories about Troy. He presents numerous facts of the Old Turkic names of the Trojans that prove the information of the Old European authors. It is the third factor to prove the Turkic origins of the Trojans:

Priam, the name of the last Trojan king, is obviously the same Priyam, the name of a Turanian commander, described in an old Turkic (Kazakh) epic. It should be mentioned that the Kazakh anthroponomy is particularly distinguished among Turkic languages for containing evident early Mediterranean (Trojan, Pelasgian) names. Even the name of the Ionian (Pelasgian) folk singer and poet, Homer, turns out to have its counterpart in the Kazakh epic: Gumar, a mythological Turanian folk singer

Garasharli discovers in the anthoponomy of the Trojans a whole group of Turkic names, which have evident counterparts in the old Turkic, Kazakh, Kirghizian, Chuvash and other Turkic languages.

Dardan, an ancestor of Priam's generation, is the same Kirghizian Dardan - a personal name. And the interpretation is reasonable:

Turkic Dardan stems from the Kirghizian appellative dardan, which forms the personal name meaning "healthy", "enormous", "clumsy".

Alber, the name of a Trojan commander, is the same old Turkic Alper, denoting "hero", "brave" (O.Turk. alp, alb, "hero", "brave" - er "man") which was widely used as a component of Old Turkic personal names, and in the name of Alper Tonga, a Turanian ruler.

Garasharli discovers this name in old Germanic sagas. "The saga about Nibelungs" tells us about the albs ("heroes") and their king Alberikh - Trojan by origin, who were the leaders of the Trojans..

Askan, the name of a Trojan hero, is completely consonant with an Old Turkic personal name - Askan, used by the Huns. Today it is observed in the anthroponomy of the Turkic Altays. Ch.Garasharli derives its origin from the appellative askan ("violent", "naughty") used in Turkic languages.

Paris, the name of Priam's son, is found to coincide with the Turkic (Khakas) Paris, a variant of the personal names Baris/Barys/Barysh/Bars, used in other Turkic languages. It is derived from the Turkic parys/pars/bars ("ounce", "snow leopard") and used as the symbol of strength in Turkic anthroponomy. It is also observed in such compound personal names as Barsbeg, Barskan, Barısbek (Kazakh), Barisbi (Karachay - Balkar), etc.

The onomastic analogies found by the author are more and more. He finds that Aytilla, Priam's sister, to be the same as the Kirghizian Aytilla, a male name.

Batiya, a female personal name, referred to the daughter of Teucros, the first king of Troy, is the same Batiya used in the Kazakh anthroponomy as female name.

Thus, the author finds the names of both Priam and his generation in Turkic anthroponomy.

Garasharli finds out analogies between Turkic-Trojan gods. For instance, Bayana, Athorodita's epithet in Troy. In Greek mythology Athorodita was known as the goddess of marriage, birth and nursing". The same function belonged to the Turkic Goddess, Bayana, which has obvious Turkic roots. Composed of the Turkic bay ("protectress", "great", "sacred") and ana ("mother"), the theonym denotes "the protectress of the tribe", "the great mother of the tribe".

Finally, the fourth factor is the Old Turkic (Trojan) lexicon borrowed into the Scandinavian languages from the Trojan language, brought here by the Trojans after the collapse of Troy.

The existance of Turkic Trojans in Scandinavia was dealt by prof. Sven Lagerbring (1707-1787) in his book "The Turkic fathers of the Scandinavians". In his book he demonstrates a lot of Turkic words used in the Swedish language with the same meaning as in Turkic.

It was ruled by a king, Priam. In accordance with the customs of his age, he ruled alone with the help of some cousellors.

Troy "died" from being defeated by another army. this was done with the help of the Trojan horse. which was a big wooden horse that solders hid inside and defeated troy. (the Trojan horse was crated by Greek warriors and Odysseus came up with the idea.)

The Odyssey is the story of how Odysseus returned home to Ithaca after the fall of the city of Troy. Troy is believed to have fallen around 1190 BC after an extended siege (10 years according to legend).

Since Odysseus was king of Ithaca and had a new born son when he left for the war and who was around 20 when he returned, Odysseus was probably born around 1210 BC or before and lived until after 1180 BC.