Trojan War

1. Was the Trojan War a real war?
2. What is the story of Trojan War?
3. Who won the Trojan War?
4. Who fought the Trojan War?
5. Who killed Achilles?
6. Was Troy vs Sparta real?
7. Were Trojans Greek or Roman?
8. Is Trojan a real story?
9. Did Achilles exist?
10. Who killed the greatest Trojan hero?
11. Who did Helen of Troy Love?
12. Who killed Agamemnon?
13. Is there any evidence of the Trojan War?
14. Is Achilles based on a real person?
15. How true is the story of Troy?
16. When did the real Trojan War happen?
17. Did the city of Troy exist?
18. Did Homer actually exist?
19. Who betrayed in the Trojan War?

Was the Trojan War a real war?

Was the Trojan War real? There has been much debate over historical evidence of the Trojan War. Archaeological finds in Turkey suggest that the city of Troy did exist but that a conflict on the immense scale of a 10-year siege may not have actually occurred.

What is the story of Trojan War?

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 an army against Troy.

Who won the Trojan War?

The Greeks finally win the war by an ingenious piece of deception dreamed up by the hero and king of Ithaca, Odysseus – famous for his cunning. They build a huge wooden horse and leave it outside the gates of Troy, as an offering to the gods, while they pretend to give up battle and sail away.

Who fought the Trojan War?

The Trojan War was fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age.

Who killed Achilles?

How does Achilles die? Achilles is killed by an arrow, shot by the Trojan prince Paris. In most versions of the story, the god Apollo is said to have guided the arrow into his vulnerable spot, his heel. In one version of the myth Achilles is scaling the walls of Troy and about to sack the city when he is shot.

Was Troy vs Sparta real?

As the historical sources – Herodotus and Eratosthenes – show, it was generally assumed to have been a real event. According to Homer's Iliad, the conflict between the Greeks – led by Agamemnon, King of Mycenae – and the Trojans – whose king was Priam – took place in the Late Bronze Age, and lasted 10 years.

Were Trojans Greek or Roman?

The Trojans were an ancient people who are thought to have been based in modern-day Turkey. Historians are unsure if they were descendants of Greeks or from elsewhere, most of what we know comes from Greeks written much later, such as the famous Greek writer, Homer.

Is Trojan a real story?

But was it just a myth? Probably, says Oxford University classicist Dr Armand D'Angour: 'Archaeological evidence shows that Troy was indeed burned down; but the wooden horse is an imaginative fable, perhaps inspired by the way ancient siege-engines were clothed with damp horse-hides to stop them being set alight.

Did Achilles exist?

Most of us think he was a mythologic Greek hero (Figure 1). The truth is that there may well have been a real Thessalian warrior, later mythologized by his semi-literate people. The story goes that his mother, Thetis, made him invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx while he was still an infant.

Who killed the greatest Trojan hero?

Achilles aimed and shot his spear into a small gap in the neck area of that armor, killing Hector. Afterward, the Greeks desecrated Hector's corpse by dragging it around the grave of Patroclus three times. King Priam, Hector's father, then went to Achilles to beg for his son's body so he could give it a proper burial.

Who did Helen of Troy Love?

Paris appeared. As was customary by the laws of hospitality in ancient Greece, they gave him lodging and entertained him with banquets and gifts. Paris and Helen fell madly in love from the moment they met. Helen escaped with Paris and together they went to Troy.

Who killed Agamemnon?

Clytemnestra, in Greek legend, a daughter of Leda and Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. She took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon was away at war. Upon his return, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon.

Is there any evidence of the Trojan War?

There is little historical documentation of the ancient Greek Bronze Age, and The Iliad and The Odyssey provide some of the only written records of a Trojan War between the people of Troy and an Achaean army occurring.

Is Achilles based on a real person?

Most of us think he was a mythologic Greek hero (Figure 1). The truth is that there may well have been a real Thessalian warrior, later mythologized by his semi-literate people. The story goes that his mother, Thetis, made him invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx while he was still an infant.

How true is the story of Troy?

Much of it is no doubt fantasy. There is, for example, no evidence that Achilles or even Helen existed. But most scholars agree that Troy itself was no imaginary Shangri-la but a real city, and that the Trojan War indeed happened.

When did the real Trojan War happen?

The Trojan War was supposedly fought over the city of Troy in today's Turkey in the 12th century BC, and inspired many pieces of classical literature, in particular the Iliad and Odyssey and the Aeneid.

Did the city of Troy exist?

The city of Troy

The site of Troy, in the northwest corner of modern-day Turkey, was first settled in the Early Bronze Age, from around 3000 BC. Over the four thousand years of its existence, countless generations have lived at Troy.

Did Homer actually exist?

As appealing as that portrayal may be, it's most likely not true. Homer perhaps never even existed — or, at least, he was nothing like he is often portrayed. Homer, rather, was an idea.

Who betrayed in the Trojan War?

Antenor was the Trojan hero who betrayed Troy to the Greeks.