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week we will be learning about the Trojan war. Please research and prepare some
interesting facts that you find to present to the class next week.
The Trojan War has its roots in the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. Peleus and Thetis had not invited Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple onto the table. The apple belonged to, Eris said, whomever was the fairest.
Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each reached for the apple. Zeus proclaimed that Paris, prince of Troy and thought to be the most beautiful man alive, would act as the judge.
Hermes went to Paris, and Paris agreed to act as the judge. Hera promised him power, Athena promised him wealth, and Aphrodite promised the most beautiful woman in the world.
Paris chose Aphrodite, and she promised him that Helen, wife of Menelaus, would be his wife. Paris then prepared to set off for Sparta to capture Helen. Twin prophets Cassandra and Helenus tried to persuade him against such action, as did his mother, Hecuba. But Paris would not listen and he set off for Sparta.
In Sparta, Menelaus, husband of Helen, treated Paris as a royal guest. However, when Menelaus left Sparta to go to a funeral, Paris abducted Helen (who perhaps went willingly) and also carried off much of Menelaus' wealth.
In Troy, Helen and Paris were married. This occured around 1200 B.C. (Wood, 16).
Finding Troy
Finding Troy proved difficult, however, and the Greek fleet at first landed in Mysia. According to Herodotus, the Greeks were under the impression that Helen had been taken by the Teuthranians (Teucrians), and though the Teuthranians denied such allegations, the Greeks layed siege to the city (Herodotus, Bk. II.118). The Greeks ultimately prevailed, but suffered heavy casualties at the hands of Telephus, king of the Teuthranians, and, at the end, were still without Helen. Telephus, in the course of the war, was wounded by Achilles.
With no where else to turn, the Greeks returned home.
The Trojan War might not have happened had not Telephus gone to Greece in the hopes of having his wound cured. Telephus had been told by an oracle that only the person who wounded him (in this case, Achilles) could cure him. Achilles assented and Telephus told the Greeks how to get to Troy.
Embassy to Priam
Odysseus, known for his eloquence, and Menelaus were sent as ambassadors to Priam. They demanded Helen and the stolen treasure be returned. Priam refused, and Odysseus and Menelaus returned to the Greek ships with the announcement that war was inevitable.
The War
The first nine years of the war consisted of both war in Troy and war against the neighboring regions. The Greeks realized that Troy was being supplied by its neighboring kingdoms, so Greeks were sent to defeat these areas.
As well as destroying Trojan economy, these battles let the Greeks gather a large amount of resources and other spoils of war, including women (e.g., Briseis, Tecmessa and Chryseis).
The Greeks won many important battles and the Trojan hero Hector fell, as did the Trojan ally Penthesilea. However, the Greeks could not break down the walls of Troy.
Patroclus was killed and, soonafter, Achilles was felled by Paris.
Helenus, son of Priam, had been captured by Odysseus. A prophet, Helenus told the Greeks that Troy would not fall unless:
a) Pyrrhus, Achilles' son, fought in the war, b) The bow and arrows of Hercules were used by the Greeks against the Trojans, c) The remains of Pelops, the famous Eleian hero, were brought to Troy, and d) The Palladium, a statue of Athena, was stolen from Troy (Tripp, 587).
Phoenix persuaded Pyrrhus to join the war. Philoctetes had the bow and arrows of Hercules, but had been left by the Greek fleet in Lemnos because he had been bitten by a snake and his wound had a horrendous smell. Philoctetes was bitter, but was finally persuaded to join the Greeks. The remains of Pelops were gotten, and Odysseus infiltrated Trojan defenses and stole the Palladium.
According to classical sources, the war began after the abduction (or elopement) of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris. Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, to lead an expedition to retrieve her. Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Nestor and Ajax, and accompanied by a fleet of more than a thousand ships from throughout the Hellenic world. They crossed the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor to lay siege to Troy and demand Helen’s return by Priam, the Trojan king.
Did You Know?
Some traditions portray Homer as a blind poet, because the name Homer sounds like a word for "blind" in some Greek dialects. In the “Odyssey,” a blind bard appears telling stories of the war, which some interpret as a cameo by the poem's author.
The siege, punctuated by battles and skirmishes including the storied deaths of the Trojan prince Hector and the nearly-invincible Achilles, lasted more than 10 years until the morning the Greek armies retreated from their camp, leaving a large wooden horse outside the gates of Troy. After much debate (and unheeded warnings by Priam’s daughter Cassandra), the Trojans pulled the mysterious gift into the city. When night fell, the horse opened up and a group of Greek warriors, led by Odysseus, climbed out and sacked the Troy from within.
After the Trojan defeat, the Greeks heroes slowly made their way home. Odysseus took 10 years to make the arduous and often-interrupted journey home to Ithaca recounted in the “Odyssey.” Helen, whose two successive Trojan husbands were killed during the war, returned to Sparta to reign with Menelaus. After his death, some sources say she was exiled to the island of Rhodes, where a vengeful war widow had her hanged.
The Trojan War Epics
Little is known about the historical Homer. Historians date the completion of the “Iliad” to about 750 B.C., and the “Odyssey” to about 725. Both began within the oral tradition, and were first transcribed decades or centuries after their composition. Many of the most familiar episodes of the war, from the abduction of Helen to the Trojan Horse and the sack of Troy, come from the so-called “Epic Cycle” of narratives assembled in the sixth century B.C. from older oral traditions.
In the first century B.C. the Roman poet Virgil composed the “Aeneid,” the third great classical epic inspired by the Trojan War. It follows a group of Trojans led by the hero Aeneas who leave their destroyed city to travel to Carthage before founding the city of Rome. Virgil’s aim was in part to give Rome’s first imperial dynasty an origin story as impressive as that of the Greeks.
History, Archaeology and the Trojan War
Many portions of the Trojan War epics are difficult to read historically. Several of the main characters are direct offspring of the Greek gods (Helen was fathered by Zeus, who disguised himself as a swan and raped her mother Leda), and much of the action is guided (or interfered with) by the various competing gods. Lengthy sieges were recorded in the era, but the strongest cities could only hold out for a few months, not 10 full years.
Major excavations at the site of Troy in 1870 under the direction of German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann revealed a small citadel mound and layers of debris 25 meters deep. Later studies have document more than 46 building phases grouped into nine bands representing the site’s inhabitation from 3,000 B.C. until its final abandonment in A.D. 1350. Recent excavations have shown an inhabited area 10 times the size of the citadel, making Troy a significant Bronze Age city. Layer VIIa of the excavations, dated to about 1180 B.C., reveals charred debris and scattered skeletons—evidence of a wartime destruction of the city that may have inspired portions of the story of the Trojan War. In Homer’s day, 400 years later, its ruins would have still been visible.
.The war started when Helen Menelaus got captured they were the king of Sparta and the queen of Sparta. . The Trojan War began in Paris.
. The Trojans lived the city of Troy which is now turkey. . The war lasted for ten years. .The Greeks one the battle in the end. . They won because they hid in a wooden horse and then they thought that they were gone but they were hiding in wooden horse and they opened the gates so they won the Trojan War.
A long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they rained arrows down on the people below, who were trying to break into the city.
The Greek warriors had been trying to breach the wall around Troy for about ten years. The Greeks could not find a way in, and the Trojans did not seem able to drive the Greeks away.
Odysseus, a Greek general, had an idea. His plan was to build a horse, a beautiful and huge wooden horse, and leave it outside the gate. Then, the entire Greek army would pretend to leave, as if they had finally admitted defeat. But the horse would be hollow. Thirty men would be hiding inside. That's what they did.
As the Greek warriors sailed away, the people of Troy rushed outside, cheering. They found the horse. Fortunately, they did not try to burn the horse. They dragged the horse inside the city gates to keep it on display, which is just what the Greek general thought they would do - gloat.
That night, while the Trojan people were sleeping, the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. The waiting Greek army entered Troy. That was the end of Troy
- Almost 3000 years ago the Trojans and the Greeks fought a terrible war because the Trojans had captured the beautiful princess Helen.
- The Greeks fought a battlewith Troy but they could not win on their physical strength so they decided to try and win with their brains.
- They came up with a smart trick and built a large wooden horse.
- One day the Greek army sailed away and all the tents disappeared apart from the 80ft wooden horse.
- The Trojan king ordered the horse to be brought inside the city walls as a sign of their victory. Once the horse was inside the Trojans danced and partied all night and finally fell asleep.
- Now the Greeks played their clever trick! A very brave solider named Odysseus was hiding inside the horse with some other soldiers. The Greeks opened the city gates and the remaining army swarmed in.
- The Greeks caught the Trojans of guard and after a fierce battle they took back the beautiful princess Helen to Greece.
Trojan War The seeds of the Trojan War were sown during the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. They didn’t invite Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and when the marriage started, the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple, inscribed with the words ‘The fairest’. The three goddess, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite on the table went to grab the apple but Zeus proclaimed Paris, prince of Troy, the most handsome man alive, to be the judge. So he had to choose the fairest goddess with the best gift. Hera offered him power and victory, Athena tempted him with wealth and Aphrodite said that he will marry the world’s most beautiful woman. Paris chose Aphrodite.
Helen was a stunningly beautiful Greek princess and many Greek princes wanted her hand in marriage. Her step father feared the rejected princes might harm Helen and her chosen groom, so he made all of them take an oath to protect Helen and her chosen groom. She chose king Menelaus of Sparta.
Paris set of to find and came to the Sparta kingdom and the husband of Helen, Menelaus treated him as a guest. Paris saw Helen and instantly fell in love so when Menelaus went to funeral in the night, Paris kidnapped Helen and she willing married him after he came back to Troy. Menelaus was furious when he found out that his wife, Helen had gone off with Paris. All the Greek princes were bound by the oath they had taken when they were courting her. Since it was their duty to help Menelaus recover Helen, the Greeks sent one thousand ships to Troy to recover Helen hence the saying, “A face that could launch a thousand ships”. Some gods chose sides in this epic war. Poseidon supported the Greeks when he didn’t get wages from the Trojan king after he built the Trojan wall. Athena and Hera also favoured the Greeks after Paris hadn’t chosen either for being the ‘fairest’. The Greeks also had Hermes and Hephaestus on their side.
Aphrodite was on the Trojan side to protect Paris after he chose her as the ‘fairest’. Apollo, Artemis, and Ares also sided with the Trojans while Zeus, Hades, Demeter and Hestia stayed relatively neutral during the war.
For the first nine years the Greeks attacked the surrounding cities and outlying cities. On the tenth year they tricked the Trojans by letting their wooden horse inside, which carried some Greek soldiers and in the night they let the army waiting outside, in. The army destroyed everything left in Troy.
The Trojans lived in the city of Troy which is now Turkey. When Paris, the prince of Troy, ran away with beautiful Helen of Greece, The Trojan War began. The powerful king Agamemnon of Greece declared war on Troy. He sent lots of ships, with armies, to get her back. 1,000 ships from Greece sailed over the seas to lay a siege on Troy. The war lasted for 10 long years. Many people were killed and wounded in the battle. In the end the Greeks won, by using a clever trick, a wooden horse.
The Wooden Horse The Greeks used the Wooden Horse as a trick used to capture Troy. First they pretended to sail away, but left behind a giant wooden horse. Inside the horse, Greek soldiers were hiding. Rejoicing that the Greeks had gone, the Trojans dragged the horse into their city. They thought it was a gift from god. That night while the Trojans were sleeping, the hidden Greeks climbed out of the wooden horse. They opened the city gates and let in the Greek army. Troy was demolished. Finally, The Trojan War was over.
Facts about the Trojan War 1. Archaeologist Manfred Coffman thinks that he had got a scientific idea to reveal the past history of Troy.
2. The story of their war with the Greeks is told in the Iliad, a long poem dating from the 700s BC, and said to be by a storyteller named Homer. The Odyssey, also by Homer, is the tale of the adventures of a Greek soldier named Odysseus, after the war.
3. The Greek hero Odysseus had built the Trojan horse.
4. The Trojan War has been described by the scholars as a romantic war.
5. Prince Paris dies from an arrow shot by a Greek archer.
THE TROJAN WAR
ReplyDeleteThe Trojan War has its roots in the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. Peleus and Thetis had not invited Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple onto the table. The apple belonged to, Eris said, whomever was the fairest.
Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each reached for the apple. Zeus proclaimed that Paris, prince of Troy and thought to be the most beautiful man alive, would act as the judge.
Hermes went to Paris, and Paris agreed to act as the judge. Hera promised him power, Athena promised him wealth, and Aphrodite promised the most beautiful woman in the world.
Paris chose Aphrodite, and she promised him that Helen, wife of Menelaus, would be his wife. Paris then prepared to set off for Sparta to capture Helen. Twin prophets Cassandra and Helenus tried to persuade him against such action, as did his mother, Hecuba. But Paris would not listen and he set off for Sparta.
In Sparta, Menelaus, husband of Helen, treated Paris as a royal guest. However, when Menelaus left Sparta to go to a funeral, Paris abducted Helen (who perhaps went willingly) and also carried off much of Menelaus' wealth.
In Troy, Helen and Paris were married. This occured around 1200 B.C. (Wood, 16).
Finding Troy
Finding Troy proved difficult, however, and the Greek fleet at first landed in Mysia. According to Herodotus, the Greeks were under the impression that Helen had been taken by the Teuthranians (Teucrians), and though the Teuthranians denied such allegations, the Greeks layed siege to the city (Herodotus, Bk. II.118). The Greeks ultimately prevailed, but suffered heavy casualties at the hands of Telephus, king of the Teuthranians, and, at the end, were still without Helen. Telephus, in the course of the war, was wounded by Achilles.
With no where else to turn, the Greeks returned home.
The Trojan War might not have happened had not Telephus gone to Greece in the hopes of having his wound cured. Telephus had been told by an oracle that only the person who wounded him (in this case, Achilles) could cure him. Achilles assented and Telephus told the Greeks how to get to Troy.
Embassy to Priam
Odysseus, known for his eloquence, and Menelaus were sent as ambassadors to Priam. They demanded Helen and the stolen treasure be returned. Priam refused, and Odysseus and Menelaus returned to the Greek ships with the announcement that war was inevitable.
The War
The first nine years of the war consisted of both war in Troy and war against the neighboring regions. The Greeks realized that Troy was being supplied by its neighboring kingdoms, so Greeks were sent to defeat these areas.
As well as destroying Trojan economy, these battles let the Greeks gather a large amount of resources and other spoils of war, including women (e.g., Briseis, Tecmessa and Chryseis).
The Greeks won many important battles and the Trojan hero Hector fell, as did the Trojan ally Penthesilea. However, the Greeks could not break down the walls of Troy.
Patroclus was killed and, soonafter, Achilles was felled by Paris.
Helenus, son of Priam, had been captured by Odysseus. A prophet, Helenus told the Greeks that Troy would not fall unless:
a) Pyrrhus, Achilles' son, fought in the war,
b) The bow and arrows of Hercules were used by the Greeks against the Trojans,
c) The remains of Pelops, the famous Eleian hero, were brought to Troy, and
d) The Palladium, a statue of Athena, was stolen from Troy (Tripp, 587).
Phoenix persuaded Pyrrhus to join the war. Philoctetes had the bow and arrows of Hercules, but had been left by the Greek fleet in Lemnos because he had been bitten by a snake and his wound had a horrendous smell. Philoctetes was bitter, but was finally persuaded to join the Greeks. The remains of Pelops were gotten, and Odysseus infiltrated Trojan defenses and stole the Palladium.
The Narrative of the Trojan War
ReplyDeleteAccording to classical sources, the war began after the abduction (or elopement) of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris. Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, to lead an expedition to retrieve her. Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Nestor and Ajax, and accompanied by a fleet of more than a thousand ships from throughout the Hellenic world. They crossed the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor to lay siege to Troy and demand Helen’s return by Priam, the Trojan king.
Did You Know?
Some traditions portray Homer as a blind poet, because the name Homer sounds like a word for "blind" in some Greek dialects. In the “Odyssey,” a blind bard appears telling stories of the war, which some interpret as a cameo by the poem's author.
The siege, punctuated by battles and skirmishes including the storied deaths of the Trojan prince Hector and the nearly-invincible Achilles, lasted more than 10 years until the morning the Greek armies retreated from their camp, leaving a large wooden horse outside the gates of Troy. After much debate (and unheeded warnings by Priam’s daughter Cassandra), the Trojans pulled the mysterious gift into the city. When night fell, the horse opened up and a group of Greek warriors, led by Odysseus, climbed out and sacked the Troy from within.
After the Trojan defeat, the Greeks heroes slowly made their way home. Odysseus took 10 years to make the arduous and often-interrupted journey home to Ithaca recounted in the “Odyssey.” Helen, whose two successive Trojan husbands were killed during the war, returned to Sparta to reign with Menelaus. After his death, some sources say she was exiled to the island of Rhodes, where a vengeful war widow had her hanged.
The Trojan War Epics
Little is known about the historical Homer. Historians date the completion of the “Iliad” to about 750 B.C., and the “Odyssey” to about 725. Both began within the oral tradition, and were first transcribed decades or centuries after their composition. Many of the most familiar episodes of the war, from the abduction of Helen to the Trojan Horse and the sack of Troy, come from the so-called “Epic Cycle” of narratives assembled in the sixth century B.C. from older oral traditions.
In the first century B.C. the Roman poet Virgil composed the “Aeneid,” the third great classical epic inspired by the Trojan War. It follows a group of Trojans led by the hero Aeneas who leave their destroyed city to travel to Carthage before founding the city of Rome. Virgil’s aim was in part to give Rome’s first imperial dynasty an origin story as impressive as that of the Greeks.
History, Archaeology and the Trojan War
Many portions of the Trojan War epics are difficult to read historically. Several of the main characters are direct offspring of the Greek gods (Helen was fathered by Zeus, who disguised himself as a swan and raped her mother Leda), and much of the action is guided (or interfered with) by the various competing gods. Lengthy sieges were recorded in the era, but the strongest cities could only hold out for a few months, not 10 full years.
Major excavations at the site of Troy in 1870 under the direction of German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann revealed a small citadel mound and layers of debris 25 meters deep. Later studies have document more than 46 building phases grouped into nine bands representing the site’s inhabitation from 3,000 B.C. until its final abandonment in A.D. 1350. Recent excavations have shown an inhabited area 10 times the size of the citadel, making Troy a significant Bronze Age city. Layer VIIa of the excavations, dated to about 1180 B.C., reveals charred debris and scattered skeletons—evidence of a wartime destruction of the city that may have inspired portions of the story of the Trojan War. In Homer’s day, 400 years later, its ruins would have still been visible.
Trojan War
ReplyDelete.The war started when Helen Menelaus got captured they were the king of Sparta and the queen of Sparta.
. The Trojan War began in Paris.
. The Trojans lived the city of Troy which is now turkey.
. The war lasted for ten years.
.The Greeks one the battle in the end.
. They won because they hid in a wooden horse and then they thought that they were gone but they were hiding in wooden horse and they opened the gates so they won the Trojan War.
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ReplyDeleteA long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they rained arrows down on the people below, who were trying to break into the city.
The Greek warriors had been trying to breach the wall around Troy for about ten years. The Greeks could not find a way in, and the Trojans did not seem able to drive the Greeks away.
Odysseus, a Greek general, had an idea. His plan was to build a horse, a beautiful and huge wooden horse, and leave it outside the gate. Then, the entire Greek army would pretend to leave, as if they had finally admitted defeat. But the horse would be hollow. Thirty men would be hiding inside. That's what they did.
As the Greek warriors sailed away, the people of Troy rushed outside, cheering. They found the horse. Fortunately, they did not try to burn the horse. They dragged the horse inside the city gates to keep it on display, which is just what the Greek general thought they would do - gloat.
That night, while the Trojan people were sleeping, the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. The waiting Greek army entered Troy. That was the end of Troy
- Almost 3000 years ago the Trojans and the Greeks fought a terrible war because the Trojans had captured the beautiful princess Helen.
ReplyDelete- The Greeks fought a battlewith Troy but they could not win on their physical strength so they decided to try and win with their brains.
- They came up with a smart trick and built a large wooden horse.
- One day the Greek army sailed away and all the tents disappeared apart from the 80ft wooden horse.
- The Trojan king ordered the horse to be brought inside the city walls as a sign of their victory. Once the horse was inside the Trojans danced and partied all night and finally fell asleep.
- Now the Greeks played their clever trick! A very brave solider named Odysseus was hiding inside the horse with some other soldiers. The Greeks opened the city gates and the remaining army swarmed in.
- The Greeks caught the Trojans of guard and after a fierce battle they took back the beautiful princess Helen to Greece.
Trojan War
ReplyDeleteThe seeds of the Trojan War were sown during the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. They didn’t invite Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and when the marriage started, the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple, inscribed with the words ‘The fairest’. The three goddess, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite on the table went to grab the apple but Zeus proclaimed Paris, prince of Troy, the most handsome man alive, to be the judge. So he had to choose the fairest goddess with the best gift. Hera offered him power and victory, Athena tempted him with wealth and Aphrodite said that he will marry the world’s most beautiful woman. Paris chose Aphrodite.
Helen was a stunningly beautiful Greek princess and many Greek princes wanted her hand in marriage. Her step father feared the rejected princes might harm Helen and her chosen groom, so he made all of them take an oath to protect Helen and her chosen groom. She chose king Menelaus of Sparta.
Paris set of to find and came to the Sparta kingdom and the husband of Helen, Menelaus treated him as a guest. Paris saw Helen and instantly fell in love so when Menelaus went to funeral in the night, Paris kidnapped Helen and she willing married him after he came back to Troy. Menelaus was furious when he found out that his wife, Helen had gone off with Paris. All the Greek princes were bound by the oath they had taken when they were courting her. Since it was their duty to help Menelaus recover Helen, the Greeks sent one thousand ships to Troy to recover Helen hence the saying, “A face that could launch a thousand ships”.
Some gods chose sides in this epic war. Poseidon supported the Greeks when he didn’t get wages from the Trojan king after he built the Trojan wall. Athena and Hera also favoured the Greeks after Paris hadn’t chosen either for being the ‘fairest’. The Greeks also had Hermes and Hephaestus on their side.
Aphrodite was on the Trojan side to protect Paris after he chose her as the ‘fairest’. Apollo, Artemis, and Ares also sided with the Trojans while Zeus, Hades, Demeter and Hestia stayed relatively neutral during the war.
For the first nine years the Greeks attacked the surrounding cities and outlying cities. On the tenth year they tricked the Trojans by letting their wooden horse inside, which carried some Greek soldiers and in the night they let the army waiting outside, in. The army destroyed everything left in Troy.
The story about the Trojan War
ReplyDeleteThe Trojans lived in the city of Troy which is now Turkey. When Paris, the prince of Troy, ran away with beautiful Helen of Greece, The Trojan War began. The powerful king Agamemnon of Greece declared war on Troy. He sent lots of ships, with armies, to get her back. 1,000 ships from Greece sailed over the seas to lay a siege on Troy. The war lasted for 10 long years. Many people were killed and wounded in the battle. In the end the Greeks won, by using a clever trick, a wooden horse.
The Wooden Horse
The Greeks used the Wooden Horse as a trick used to capture Troy. First they pretended to sail away, but left behind a giant wooden horse. Inside the horse, Greek soldiers were hiding. Rejoicing that the Greeks had gone, the Trojans dragged the horse into their city. They thought it was a gift from god.
That night while the Trojans were sleeping, the hidden Greeks climbed out of the wooden horse. They opened the city gates and let in the Greek army. Troy was demolished. Finally, The Trojan War was over.
Facts about the Trojan War
1. Archaeologist Manfred Coffman thinks that he had got a scientific idea to reveal the past history of Troy.
2. The story of their war with the Greeks is told in the Iliad, a long poem dating from the 700s BC, and said to be by a storyteller named Homer. The Odyssey, also by Homer, is the tale of the adventures of a Greek soldier named Odysseus, after the war.
3. The Greek hero Odysseus had built the Trojan horse.
4. The Trojan War has been described by the scholars as a romantic war.
5. Prince Paris dies from an arrow shot by a Greek archer.