The City Of Troy And The Trojan War

Over the past years a lot of archaeological and literary evidence has helped us gain a better understanding of the history of Troy. Much hard work has gone into the excavations there by many archaeologists, and many interesting artefacts have been found. The story of the Ancient City of Troy is a great one, however many people believed it didn’t exist and that Homers Iliad, the story of the Trojan War was just some story. This has since been proved untrue as the city of Troy was discovered, and the pieces of this amazing puzzle have fallen together. Homer described Troy as an exceptionally large city with large high powerful walls, wide streets, twisting paths and large houses. Some of the archaeologists that have contributed to the

The Trojan war was a ten year siege on the city of the city of Troy at the hands of the Greek forces led by a psychopathic king, Agamemnon. This conflict, which took place about 1200 B.C has become one of the most well known Greek mythology events in history. In the 13th century B.C, Troy and Sparta had stopped their wars and become allies, this was until Paris the youngest prince of Troy seduced Helen, the Queen of Sparta and left with her back to Troy. When Menelaos (The King of Sparta) found out what had happened, he vowed

The Trojan War was commenced around 3000 BCE marking most memorable period in Greek Mythology. These events were presented in Homer’s lliad through poetry. The war began during the Bronze Age with Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy fighting in Anatolia. Troy, today known as modern Turkey was in Anatolia i.e. at the eastern Shores of Aegean Sea. The city of Troy was colonized by 5000-10000 Trojans and was attacked many times by 5000 Mycenaeans who had crossed the Aegean Sea in hundred ships. Around 1200 BCE the city was destroyed by Mycenaean Greeks. The war was sophisticated to higher level by tactics and Magnificent Armors. Mycenaean Greece came under attack by both land and sea around 1200 BCE. (Dutton Marchand Harkness 27)

By the 19th century the story of the war was told as mythology, but by the start of the 20th century the story was discovered to be much more historically accurate. “Archaeologists found remains of great citadel that existed on the Western shore of Asia Minor, the traditional location of Troy.” Whether it is legend of fact, they start the same way, a wedding.

In Greek mythology, the walls of Troy had been discovered to have been built by Poseidon and Apollo who, after an act of ignorance, were obligated to serve for the Trojan King Laomedon for one year, by Zeus. Many tough battles had been fought outside of the city, sometimes they fought with chariots, but the majority of them were fought by men on foot, using weapons such as spears, sword, shields, helmets, and armour for protection of the chest and legs. War fumed back and forth across the plains of Troy, over the years, but the most important battles seemed to have been saved for the final year of the siege. There were four major battles between a Greek warrior, and Trojan warrior. The first battle came down between Menelaos and Paris. Menelaos offered to fight Paris just between the two of them, so they could settle the issue of the war. Agreeing to this, both warriors brought lots together to see who would have first throw with their spear. Paris won, and threw first, but his spear landed in the shield of Menelaos. All four battles began like this, with the throwing of the spear. Other warriors included in these battles were, Ajax, and Hektor, Achilles, and Hektor, and lastly the most important battle of all, the Trojan Horse, and the victory. Many believed that Trojan Horse, and the victory is a myth, because

The Trojan War. The Epic war. The war of Homer, and Hektor, and Achilles. It is so well known to us, yet so remote. Yet are the works of Homer mere flights of fantasy? Or is there some small (or even large) degree of truth to the stories that he so vividly brings to life in the Iliad and the Odyssey? Can it be demonstrated that far from being a culture-myth, the Trojan war was in fact a real event. This paper considers the evidence for the historicity of the Trojan war, utilising evidence from within the Homeric texts, archaeological and epigraphic evidence. The best approach to this issue is to ask a set of fundamental questions that underpin the issue of the Trojan War's historicity. These questions are:

Throughout the past three thousand years since the occurrences of the Trojan War, numerous archaeologists and historians have contributed into finding evidence on the accuracy of the Epic Battle. When explaining the events of this infamous war between the Greeks and Trojans, the roles of archaeology and written evidence have played a vital part.

The Movie Troy has been one of the best Hollywood movies to be filmed. However, many historical events that took place in the movie, and the Iliad can be questioned whether or not they are reliable, creating controversy about the historical accuracy of the film. This essay will examine and evaluate the evidence, and compare the movie with archeological evidence about the Trojan War. It will be argued that the myth of Troy was altered while creating the epic movie, Troy, to make it more attractive for the audience. I will begin by introducing the source of the movie’s storyline.

The Trojan War may have happened for multiple reasons. For example, artifacts found on land have helped to show why the Trojan War occurred. “We have also discovered a cemetery outside the ditch to the south. The most recent excavations have determined that Troy, which now covers about 75 acres, is about fifteen times larger than previously thought”

The Trojan War. Confined totally to the pages of Homer's The Illiad, the indulgent fantasy of a Greek poet who lived over two and a half 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 archaeologists to suggest that The Iliad has some basis in truth

Now it was clear that Troy was one of the larger Anatolian cities of the period during which we would place the Trojan War. Korfmann dig found several important things about Troy which helped prove that Homer could be true. They believe that Troy appears to have been destroyed around 1180 B.C., probably by a war the city lost. There is evidence of a fire, some skeletons, and heaps of sling bullets. People who have successfully defended their city would have gathered their sling bullets and put them away for another event, but a victorious conqueror would have done nothing with them, from what the archeologists believed. That still wasn’t enough proof to think that all that was from a war. ”It appeared that the city was, by the standards of the region at that time, and most certainly of superregional importance in controlling access from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and from Asia Minor to southeast Europe and vice versa.” This proved that Troy could have been fought over because of that factor, it gave more reason to why others would want the city as their own. “Troy was also evidently attacked repeatedly and had to defend itself again and again, as indicated by repairs undertaken to the main defenses and efforts to enlarge and strengthen them.” They started to question the size of Troy because Homer described it as being really big but from what

In the Iliad, Homer describes the city of Troy as a place destroyed by a war. In the eyes of historians, the city of Troy remained a work of fiction until a man by the name Heinrich Schliemann excavated a site which was believed to be the city of Troy. This site was found in northwestern Turkey and was in fact the ruins of the real city of Troy. Unfortunately, due to Schliemann’s carelessness he destroyed large amounts of the city during the excavation. The city of Troy was later found out to have been destroyed by an earthquake, rather than an actual war. It was discovered that the city had been destroyed several times and that there are actually layers on top of layers of the city being

The story of the Trojan War written and told by Homer portrays the many different aspects of war, the way it is handled by society, and the aftermath of it. I believe that this particular story greatly deplores the idea of war. The way things were perceived by the people during the battle, it was solely based upon the title of pride and honor. Soldiers were seen as brave and courageous fighters, and whatever they did was commended by society. The obsessive desire of respect and pride was majorly expressed through the actions and traits of Achilles, the hero of the Greeks.

The Trojan War, the event depicted in Homer's Iliad, was the most popular subject in Greek drama and told its story elaborately to next generations. According to Homer, the war started 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. It led the Trojans to believe that the horse was

Barry Strauss, professor of classics at Cornell University attempts to redefine a one of history’s biggest love affairs, the Trojan War. Strauss explains how certain events and characters from Homers “The Odyssey” might have actually existed, but also uses modern discoveries from the Bronze Age to compare Homers account to those of Egypt, the Middle East, and etc. While Homer’s epic should not be read as a historical document which recounts the Trojan War hundred percent accurately, it can still be seen as document which embodies some historical truth. The novel as a whole explains the customs, economic standing, fighting styles and beliefs of the Greeks. Strauss’s writing style allows for the book to be accessible to both students and historians. He argues that just like Franz Ferdinand was the spark which ignited World War 1, Helen on the other hand was just a spark which escalated an existing tension between the Greeks and Trojans. Strauss’s personal input on the war itself gives the novel a different outlook on the Trojan War because, it allows for readers to see beyond the facts and make connections with ideas that Strauss had made with recent discoveries and Homers epic.