because Helen‚ the most beautiful Greek woman and wife of a Greek king‚ Menelaus‚ decided to leave her husband and ran away with a Trojan Prince‚ Paris. This angered the Greeks so they sailed to Troy and fought for Helen’s return. As the war continued on‚ the Greeks were forced to plan a new strategy to attack Troy since the city had very strong walls and the Greeks began to realize they were unable to defeat the Trojans. The plan was to build a huge‚ hollow‚ wooden horse that was filled with Greeks soldiers
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event. These sources include ancient epics such as Homer’s Iliad‚ the Cypria‚ historical tablets such as the Hittite records and more archaeological findings from excavations. Through archaeological excavations at Hisarlik‚ the site believed to be Troy‚ and other ancient sites‚ there is considerable evidence that reveal the potential causes of the Trojan War and that support its likelihood. Ancient Greek mythology conveys the story and causes
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his escape from Troy in Book II of the Aeneid. He does need help at times‚ realizing his destiny; and so he is visited by the ghosts of Hector and Creusa‚ and also‚ by the goddess‚ Venus‚ his mother. These supernatural events have given Aeneas what is needed to lead the people of Troy; and to set out in search for the new city they would call Rome. The description of Hector as he appeared to Aeneas in a dream was as sad and horrific as what was happening to their beloved Troy. With a sigh‚
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attribute positive events to their own character‚ but they attribute negative events to external factors‚ so quite literally‚ self-serving bias is making oneself look good and blaming other factors. In Book 2 of the Aeneid‚ Virgil recounts the Battle of Troy from the Roman perspective while in Books 3 and 4 of the Odyssey and in the Iliad‚ Homer recounts the battle from the Greek perspective. Both epics tell the story of the Greeks construction of the Trojan Horse‚ which is a wooden horse secretly hiding
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Meanwhile‚ Paris’ favorite bull is taken for the Trojan tribute games. Paris insists on competing‚ despite his father’s protests. After winning in every competition and being recognized by his sister Cassandra‚ Paris is welcomed by an overjoyed Priam to Troy. Cassandra and his elder brother Hector are upset at their father’s decision. Paris is sent to Sparta to draw out a peace treaty with the Atreids‚ Agamemnon and Menelaus. His treaty is refused and Agamemnon plots to have him murdered.
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debate‚ the literary and archaeological evidence indicates that there was a Trojan War. The reality of this war however‚ was not the epic conflict as narrated by Homer‚ but more likely part of an ongoing enmity between the Mycenaean ’s and the Hittites. Troy was a wealthy city‚ well placed at the mouth of the Hellespont in the north west corner of Anatolia to be of vital strategic and commercial importance. Unfortunately it was also situated on the periphery of two of the most powerful and aggressive civilisations
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As the city of Troy is being taken over by the Achaeans‚ Hector visits Aeneas in a dream and tells him‚ “the enemy holds the city walls‚ and from her height Troy falls in ruin… go find for them the great walls that one day you’ll dedicat‚ when you have roamed the sea”(Virgil 2.388-390‚ 396-397). Virgil uses this dream as a means to send Aeneas on his journey out of Troy and on to find Rome. As Pulcheria Kyriakou notes‚ “The dream is also pivotal in justifying Aeneas’ flight from Troy and legitimizing
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Did the Trojan War occur? The existence of a war in Troy is undeniable; however it is not the Trojan war of Homer’s Iliad. It is believed that Homer’s account may have been based on a real event therefore having some truth but due to the mythological nature of the source‚ the unreliability of oral transmission and the exaggerated romantic theme‚ the account is not a valid source for historians. Written evidence such as the Hittite records and the different theories presented by archaeologists
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Numerous individuals suspected that it was only a myth and that the city of Troy itself never existed. Troy existed in the Bronze Age‚ and is most usually known from the antiquated greek epic stories‚ most particularily the Iliad by Homer‚ where it is broadly known as the setting for the Trojan War. In the epic‚ It is said that the reason for the Trojan war‚ and possible fall of Troy‚ was a direct result of the romance of Helen. Helen was stunningly lovely‚ numerous sovereigns needed her as their
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thousand years ago- or a historic fact at the centre of the most famous quarrel ever? The Illiad is the ancient tale of a mighty city called Troy that lay at the edge of Asia Minor whose prince abducted Helen‚ the most beautiful woman of all time‚ from the king of Greek Sparta‚ causing the Greeks to send an army in a thousand ships to attack and lay siege to Troy for 10 years. Historians have long doubted the credibility of Homer as a reliable historical source. However evidence has been uncovered by
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