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    Troy: Evidence of Homer

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    The role that Homer played in our understanding of the Trojan War by his writing the Iliad has been one of great significance. The turn of the 8th Century saw the writing of the Iliad from the Ancient Greek writer‚ Homer‚ which was roughly 3‚000 years ago. Heinrich Schliemann‚ a wealthy German business‚ dedicated his energy and considerable fortune to discovering the Troy Homer describes in the Iliad. By using the writings‚ Schliemann was able to locate the site of the Ancient city of Troy. Manfred

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    The Aeneid

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    The Aeneid Catherine J. Troy was sacked by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Aeneas‚ a Trojan himself‚ wandered the sea for seven years with his fellow Trojans in attempt to found a new city‚ but something fails each time they try. The Trojan Fleet got caught in a storm sent by Juno‚ the queen of the gods. Their travels lead them to a shipwreck in Carthage‚ a city in North Africa. Juno hates Aeneas because she knows that the city of Rome that he will found will one day destroy her beloved city of

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    Troy (the Movie)

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    War has existed throughout History. Some men fight for power‚ some for glory‚ some for honor‚ and some for love. Troy is a movie inspired by Homer¡¯s epic tale ¡°The Iliad¡±. It tells the story of two worlds that go to war for honor and power. Both sides are in pursuit of glory‚ but love turns out to deceive their hopes and aspirations (as with Paris and Achilles)‚ causing a nation burnt to the ground and the death of an invincible warrior. Although the story has been manipulated in many aspects

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    What Defines a Hero?

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    his disguise and questioned him‚ but he cleverly put me off. It was only after I had bathed him And rubbed him down with oil and clothed him And had sworn a great oath not to tell the Trojans Who he really was until he got back to the ships‚ That he told me‚ at last‚ what the Achaeans planned. He killed many Trojans before he left and arrived back at camp with much to report. The other women in Troy wailed aloud‚ But I was glad inside‚ for my heart had turned Homeward‚ and I rued the infatuation Aphrodite

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    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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    Illiad

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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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    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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    Helen Of Troy

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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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