The Trojan War was a ten-year war in which Greek warriors laid siege to Troy.
The Iliad describes gods and goddesses moving around and picking sides in the final year of the war.
A youth named Paris, one of the sons of King Priam of Troy, was asked to choose the fairest of three goddesses:Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera. Each goddess offered Paris a special gift if he declared her the fairest. Paris selected Aphrodite, who had promised him the most beautiful woman in the world.
Aphrodite took Paris to Sparta, where the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen, was. Paris fell in love almost immediately and took Helen with him back to Troy.
Helen was the wife of Prince Menelaus, who was outraged by Paris taking Helen to Troy. Menelaus asked his
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They besieged the city of Troy, but made little progress in the war for nine years. The Iliad takes up the story when Agamemnon insulted his bravest warrior, Achilles. Furious with Agamemnon, Achilles withdrew from the battle, cursing his Greek comrades.
Hector, another one of Priam’s sons and the leading Trojan warrior, led a force from the besieged city to attack the Greeks. Hector killed Patroclus, who had borrowed the armor of his friend Achilles. Filled with grief and rage, Achilles returned to the battle and killed Hector. Then Achilles dragged Hector's body behind his chariot, preventing the Trojans from holding a proper funeral. This act angered the gods, who persuaded Achilles to return the body to Hector's family.
Paris killed Achilles with a well-aimed arrow, which landed in Achilles’ heel, only to be killed by a Greek archer. After the death of Achilles, the Greeks recognized Odysseus as their finest warrior. The valiant Ajax, angry at being passed by, attempted to kill the other Greek leaders and finally committed suicide. Meanwhile, Odysseus came up with a plan to defeat Troy by tricking them rather than direct force. He told the Greeks to build an enormous, hollow wooden horse on wheels. The Greek soldiers hid inside the horse, which was then pushed/pulled to the gates of Troy. The Trojans awoke to find this marvel outside their gates and brought it into the city. That night, the Greek soldiers
The Trojan War is one of the most known battle or war in history, if not the most known. It was a very, very long war, but there was one main source or reason of conflict that drove it to last so long, it seemed endless. Paris, a Trojan prince, was promised a wife as fair as the goddess of beauty by Aphrodite herself. The particular woman she promised was already married to a Greek King by the name of Menelaus. This started not only tension between the Greeks and Trojans but also anger because they were recently married.Helen should have returned to the Greeks for a few reasons that could have led to a shorter war, or even no war.First off, Greek King Menelaus is her rightfully wedded husband. The war would have been totally prevented if a couple of decisions were better made. Finally, she never really was in love with Paris. It was all manipulated by Aphrodite.
Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. The Spartans refused to return Helen to Sparta so Menelaus persuaded his brother Agamemnon to lead an army against Troy. They fought for nine years but never were able to defeat he main city. The Greeks then built a large wooden horse in which warriors were hidden inside. The Greeks appeared to leave and the horse was left at the front gates of the city. The Trojans brought the horse inside the gates and the other Greeks returned at night. The people hidden inside the horse opened the gates for these Greeks and they destroyed Troy. This war could also have another motive as to who controlled trade through the Dardanelles.
Oh no, Helen’s been stolen! Prince Paris has kidnapped Helen, the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Paris was assisted by Aphrodite, who promised him Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, as a reward for siding with her during a competition against the goddesses Hera and Athena.
...ector. Afterwards Hector has been killed and have been dragged around the Trojan Walls, His second nemesis occurs when Paris gets back at him for killing one of the Trojan’s best warriors and leaders by killing Achilles with arrow right into his heel, the only place where Achilles can be killed. Achilles being killed is the end of Achilles’ two behavior cycles.
In The Iliad the major conflict begins between Prince Paris and the Achaean king Menelaus over Helen. During the war that arises from the attempt to bring back Helen the Achaeans reside in a city nearby and hold captive several women. Chryses asks
drive to conquer the Trojan army with or without the aid of Achilles. In doing
After leaving her hometown and being taken to Troy by Paris, she realizes she doesn’t have such a liking for him but more so toward Hector. Helen believes he is more of a gentleman and has a better fondness of her feelings than Paris does. It’s shocking but also while all of that is still happening she blames some of these series of events on Aphrodite, a beautiful goddess, who is known for being the goddess of love, relationships, and is very supportive of Paris. She also helps out the Trojans while the war is happening.
The suspected start of the war- over the abduction of Helen, Queen of Sparta- was caused entirely by a godly conflict over who was the most beautiful- Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, was selected to judge. He chose Aphro...
The Greek gods were not only intimately involved in the action of the Trojan War, they were also the impetus for the war. Although the overt cause of the war was Paris' abduction of Helen, this act was the result of quarrelling goddesses. The Trojan prince Paris was forced to choose the fairest amongst the goddesses Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena. Each goddess attempted to sway Paris with offerings, and Aphrodite's temptation was Helen; this leads to the war and the immortal alliances that overshadow its mortal activities. The story that the poem implicitly addresses is of the Achaen king Agamemnon and his daughter Iphigenia. The Achaen forces have gathered at Aulis before mounting their attack on Troy when one of Artemis' stags is killed; this, coupled with Agamemnon's boasting of the act, is why "Artemis is offended" (51). In retaliation, the goddess imprisons the troops at Aulis by preventing the wind from powering their fleet. In order to appease the goddess and begin the war, Agamemnon sacrifices his own daughter Iphigenia as "the child" who will become "the victim of Aulis." Although Artemis intervenes and makes Iphigenia one of her priestesses, only the goddess knows that Iphigenia escaped death.
Paris’ brother, Hector, told him: "Paris, appalling Paris! Our prince of beauty-mad for woman, you lure them all to ruin." (Book III) Women are not the only ones drawn to ruin by Paris. The whole Trojan army, not to mention the whole city of Troy, was endangered by Paris’ selfishness. Paris is very likely the cause of the Trojan War. His story was told by prophecies before he was born: The prophecies said that he would be the cause of the destruction of Troy. His parents, Priam and Hecuba, left him to die on a mountain when he was a baby, but he was rescued and returned to Troy as a young man. Paris abducted prince Menelaos’ (of Mycenae) wife, Helen, who was said to be the
An ancient history website states that “Athena was a major protagonist in Homer’s account of the Trojan War in the Illiad where she supports the Achaeans and their heroes, especially Achilles, to whom she gives encouragement and wise counsel. " Athena is first shown in the Illiad when Agamemnon threatens to go to Achille’s tent in the camp and take Biseis himself. Along side Hera and Poseiden, Athena tended to help the Greek side during the war. With the help from others, Athena comes up with the idea of a Trojan horse and that the warriors hide inside the horse and that the horse would be brought into the city and given as a gift.
With Agamemnon capturing Chrysies, the following events unravel into what becomes the Trojan War and the story of the Iliad. If you focus on mortals in the epic, females may seem like they have little to offer, but the Iliad contains strong female characters if you include the gods. All the gods are all portrayed, as powerful beings. Aphrodite, Athena and Hera, are not lacking in power with them being female characters. Helen should also be noted for she is the reason that Troy was destroyed.
...h Agamemnon and wishes that ‘strife could die from the lives of gods and men’… Not to avenge Patroclus by killing Hector would be a renunciation of all that he stands for and has lived by”. Even though “sorrow fell on Achilles like a cloud” (216), he went back out to the battlefield and killed Hector. It took a great deal of bravery for Achilles to face the man who killed his best friend but Achilles, being the hero that he was, got back into battle and killed him because he couldn’t let Patroclus’ death go unavenged.
In Petersen’s movie Troy, Achilles realizes that his ego isn’t everything when meeting Briseis, a priestess from Troy, that he falls in love with and who opens his eyes that he would rather be with her than prove himself to the world as the greatest warrior to live. Once Briseis is taken back into the city of Troy, the Greeks plan an attack to infiltrate the city with the Trojan horse. Once inside, the war breaks out between the two forces, but Achilles does not involve himself in this glorious fight. Instead, he chooses to run to look for Briseis and keep her safe. When he finds her, Paris shoots him in the heel, in his achilles, the only point of his body that was vulnerable.
When Patroclus dies at the hands of Hector, a Trojan prince, Achilles decides to act like adult, and let go of his anger towards Agamemnon. He laments “...All those burning desires... /but what joy to me now? My dear comrade's dead...”