Trojan War Dates: 1200-1184 B.C Trojan War, in Greek mythology
... Dates: 1200-1184 B.C Trojan War, in Greek mythology, war between the Greeks and the people of Troy. The strife began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. When Menelaus demanded her return, the Trojans refused. Menelaus then persuaded his brother Agamemnon to lead ...
... Dates: 1200-1184 B.C Trojan War, in Greek mythology, war between the Greeks and the people of Troy. The strife began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. When Menelaus demanded her return, the Trojans refused. Menelaus then persuaded his brother Agamemnon to lead ...
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... something must be done. He devises a plan to get into the walls of Troy: the construction of the Trojan _______________. When the Greeks present this to the Trojans as a gift of __________________, a soothsayer advises the Trojans not to accept it, saying it is a _______________, but when he is atta ...
... something must be done. He devises a plan to get into the walls of Troy: the construction of the Trojan _______________. When the Greeks present this to the Trojans as a gift of __________________, a soothsayer advises the Trojans not to accept it, saying it is a _______________, but when he is atta ...
The Iliad and the Odyssey
... the Trojan hero Hector, who mistook him for Achilles. Achilles was overwhelmed with grief for his friend and rage at Hector. Achilles kills Hector. He desecrated the body, dragging it behind his chariot before the walls of Troy. Finally Paris, aided by Apollo, wounded Achilles in the heel with an ar ...
... the Trojan hero Hector, who mistook him for Achilles. Achilles was overwhelmed with grief for his friend and rage at Hector. Achilles kills Hector. He desecrated the body, dragging it behind his chariot before the walls of Troy. Finally Paris, aided by Apollo, wounded Achilles in the heel with an ar ...
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... The Trojan War: The Illiad • Eris (discord) not invited. Creates golden apple for the “fairest.” • Hera (motherhood) , Aphrodite (love), Athena (hunt/ intelligence) fight over it. • Zeus chooses Paris of Troy. Paris picks Aphrodite. Aphrodite ‘gives’ Helen, wife of Menelaus (Sparta). • Paris captu ...
... The Trojan War: The Illiad • Eris (discord) not invited. Creates golden apple for the “fairest.” • Hera (motherhood) , Aphrodite (love), Athena (hunt/ intelligence) fight over it. • Zeus chooses Paris of Troy. Paris picks Aphrodite. Aphrodite ‘gives’ Helen, wife of Menelaus (Sparta). • Paris captu ...
I am the greatest Greek warrior. Who is Achilles?
... I was sacrificed by my father at Aulis so the Greeks’ ships would sail. My mother thought that I was going to marry ...
... I was sacrificed by my father at Aulis so the Greeks’ ships would sail. My mother thought that I was going to marry ...
The Iliad and The Trojan War
... One of the most powerful and skilled of the Greek warriors. Achilles was dipped in the river Styx at birth making him invincible all over except the ankle which he was held by. ...
... One of the most powerful and skilled of the Greek warriors. Achilles was dipped in the river Styx at birth making him invincible all over except the ankle which he was held by. ...
Trojan Cycle
... Did he exist? Oral tradition Dactylic hexameter Formulaic composition Oldest extant works of Greek literature ...
... Did he exist? Oral tradition Dactylic hexameter Formulaic composition Oldest extant works of Greek literature ...
The Trojan War…
... The story begins… When Eris (the goddess of discord) threw an apple that landed… ...
... The story begins… When Eris (the goddess of discord) threw an apple that landed… ...
Trojan War Basics
... than his father, so Zeus (attracted to her) determined to marry her to a mortal and chose Peleus • A great wedding was held and all the gods and goddesses were invited, but one—Eris, Goddess of Discord. • Eris came anyway and tossed onto the table a golden apple inscribed – “To the Fairest’ • Minerv ...
... than his father, so Zeus (attracted to her) determined to marry her to a mortal and chose Peleus • A great wedding was held and all the gods and goddesses were invited, but one—Eris, Goddess of Discord. • Eris came anyway and tossed onto the table a golden apple inscribed – “To the Fairest’ • Minerv ...
historical background
... The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fai ...
... The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fai ...
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... • Hera offers to make Paris ruler of all Europe and Asia • Athena promises to give Troy victory over all the Greeks • Aphrodite offers him the most beautiful woman in the world ...
... • Hera offers to make Paris ruler of all Europe and Asia • Athena promises to give Troy victory over all the Greeks • Aphrodite offers him the most beautiful woman in the world ...
Homer background_Illiad and Odyssey
... of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes Odysseus's journey home. Other parts of the war are contained in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poe ...
... of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes Odysseus's journey home. Other parts of the war are contained in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poe ...
Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked ""for the fairest"". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the ""fairest"", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern-day Italy.The ancient Greeks treated the Trojan War as a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC and believed that Troy was located near the Dardanelles in what is now Turkey. As of the mid-19th century, both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. In 1868, however, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann met Frank Calvert, who convinced Schliemann that Troy was at Hissarlik and Schliemann took over Calvert's excavations on property belonging to Calvert; this claim is now accepted by most scholars. Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War are derived from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VIIa.