Helen was courted by so many prominent heroes‚ her stepfather Tyndareus made all of them swear to abide by Helen’s choice of a husband‚ and to defend that husband’s rights should anyone attempt to take Helen away by force. Matthew Marsden as Paris- Trojan who took Helen from Menelaus. Rufus Sewell as Agamemnon- The leader of the Achaean expedition to Troy‚ he was the King of Mycenae. On his return from Troy he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra‚ and her lover Aegisthus. The lover was the son of
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Bronze Age. Two nations (Trojans and Greeks) begin to clash after Paris‚ the Trojan prince‚ convinces Helen‚ Queen of Sparta‚ to leave her husband‚ Menelaus‚ and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that the Trojans took his wife‚ he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1‚000 ships holding 50‚000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles‚ the Greeks are able to fight the Trojans. Achilles at first doesn’t
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of the time. They ruled for 500 more years. THE TROJAN LEGENDS Homer is the first and greatest writer of all Greek literary form known as the Epic. People referred to his works for information and about this specific form. Homer’s name will always be linked with the Trojan War because Homer wrote about the conflict between the Trojans and the return vogues of the Greek leaders. He is known for telling us the whole story of the Trojan War but that’s not true. There are plenty of other writers
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there is a powerfully written comparison of a war fought by ants‚ to war fought by humans. Thoreau Carefully watched this battle take place. As the battle went on‚ he could see the army of black ants was much more powerful then the red ants. He compares this battle to that of the Trojan War. When reading this essay it becomes clear how similar it is when insects fight to how humans fight‚ especially the amount of struggle and energy put into the war. The ants felt the pain of missing a limb just
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1. WHY DOES PROTAGONIST (Helen of Troy) considered main cause of Trojan War? In Greek legend‚ the Trojan War was fought between the Greeks and the city of Troy. The direct cause of this war was the beauty of Helen of Troy‚ daughter of the Greek god Zeus and Leda‚ the Queen of Sparta. Helen was much coveted by all of the men in Troy‚ so when she chose a husband‚ the King of Sparta made all men swear that they would accept Helen’s choice of a husband and that they would also defend her if anyone
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Acquisitiveness of the Trojan War In almost all instances of war the cause has been related to greed‚ or the gaining of land and possessions. Greed is presented in the very first book of Homer’s “The Iliad.” It isn’t displayed by the cowards‚ but the “heroes” of the war such as Agamemnon‚ Achilles‚ and Pandarus. The entire cause of the Trojan War is the result of the greedy and cowardly behavior of Paris. There are many factors that had sparked the war‚ including the interference of the gods; however
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and epic hero is a man who has been away from his wife and son for twenty years. Odysseus is reluctant in giving up on his journey to get back to his beloved wife and son‚ Penelope and Telemachus. Odysseus goes into a great war called the Trojan War and he survives the whole war with a wonderful victory‚ hoping to see his wife and son in the future. Odysseus goes on a very painstaking and heart wrenching journey to get back to his wife and son. When Odysseus gets back to his palace he is faced with
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the Trojan War‚ the location of Troy is debatable and therefore there is little conclusive evidence to support the Iliad" For years the ancient story of Troy and the epic Trojan War has sparked dispute among archaeologists. Did it really happen? Was there a troy like the one Homer describes? What caused it? Historians are today still trying to prove the existence of troy and the Trojan War. Our main source of interest in troy and the Trojan War is the Iliad. It is an account of the war‚ describing
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attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War‚ the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states‚ it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war‚ the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege‚ the earlier events‚ such as the gathering of warriors for the siege‚ the cause of the war and similar‚ tending to appear
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He takes the story of the Trojan World out of the literate Greek archaic age and places it in its context in the Bronze Age world of Anatolia. He shows that Homer was in many areas recreating the ancient world even when its mores conflicted with the world he knew. He also reminds us that Achilles fighting in the Trojan War was over a woman seems a bit far fetched‚ but Strauss explains that in the Bronze Age‚ personal
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