The Responsibility Of Trojan Horse In The Trojan War

Have you ever heard of Achilles? he was one of the greatest war heroes that ever lived and was mostly known for fighting in the great Trojan War. The Trojan war began in the twelfth Century and ended sometime in the thirteenth century. The Trojan war was one of the greatest occurrences for the Greeks and they are widely known for this war. Many other heroes like hector and Aeneas fought in this war.

At the beginning of Book 2 of The Aeneid, Aeneas tells his story about the fall of Troy. The Greeks constructed a massive wooden horse to which the Trojans believed was an offering goddess Minerva. They then sent one of their youths, Sinon, to give the offering to the Trojans. The Trojans brought the wooden horse into to please the goddess but, the wooden horse was actually a structure to house some Greek soldiers to infiltrate Troy as well as execute a sneak attack when the city was asleep. Similar to guerrilla soldiers, the Greeks exit the wooden horse to begin their attack on the Trojan city. When Aeneas sees the city in flames, he gathers his men to attempt to save Troy. Aeneas attempts to kill as many Greeks as he can, but forced to retreat.

The Greek forces won the Trojan War. The story of the war is a cornerstone of Greek legend, and pervaded Greek literature and culture. Though the evidence for the Trojan War as historical fact is scarce, it was a formative event in Greek cultural memory, producing some of the classical world’s most famous heroes and narratives. The War was won, Helen was retrieved from Paris, whose violation of ξενία was redressed, the heroes attained the κλέος that many of them fought for – and yet the positive outcomes of the Trojan War are difficult to grasp. For the victims of the Trojan War, the tragedy is obvious; the War ended in genocide and total cultural destruction. But such a war, burnt into legend, should have left the victors far better off; and yet, the Greek heroes only suffer because of it. They die tragic, dishonourable deaths; their households are left in ruin; their families are torn apart. From both modern and classical perspectives, the Trojan War is a tragedy, a “harrowing destruction of life” (Euripides, Andromache, 291). The victory is pyrrhic, the loss of life is horrific, the reparations non-existent.

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 Horse is a story from the Trojan War about the trick that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and win the war. In the acknowledged version, after a useless ten year war, the Greeks built a massive wooden horse, and hid a select group of troups inside. The horse was put together by Epeius, a master carpenter and pugilist. The Greeks, act as if they desert the war, and sail to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who convinced the Trojans that the horse was a gift to Athena that would make Troy impenetrable. In spite of the warnings of Laocoon and Cassandra, the horse was taken inside the city gates. That night Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the returned Greek army. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, ultimately ending the war.

The war began with a grand wedding between Peleus, the son of Aeacus, and Thetis, the sea-goddess. Eris, the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding. Enraged at this, she stormed into the wedding and threw a golden apple of discord on a table. The apple had the inscription “For the fairest” a quarrel soon arose between three powerful goddesses. The three goddesses; Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena all wanted the title of fairest. They wanted to Zeus to be the judge of this contest. Not wanting to be involved in the quarrel, Zeus sent Hermes to get Paris, the Trojan prince, so that he could judge the three ("History of the Trojan War").

The people responsible for causing the Trojan War are Helen, Paris and Eris the goddess of discord. Helen is one person to blame because she is unfaithful to her husband Menelaus to the point she starts an affair with another man. Paris is at fault considering the decision he makes about wanting the most beautiful wife and claiming Aphrodite as the fairest. Then stealing another man’s wife and putting his people of Troy in danger after taking her. Eris is also liable for the war because she is jealous about not being invited to a wedding feast, so she wants to cause a riot among those who are invited for her own amusement. Helen is Menelaus’s wife, though she falls in love with Paris. As she continues her affair with him, they then travel back

here is where the cunning of Odysseus shone through. Odysseus had the Greek army built what came to be known as the Trojan horse,a giant hollow wooden horse to give the Trojans as an offering of peace. within the body of the horse, some of the best Greek warriors hid. this was remembered to be referred to, as ''beware Greeks bearing

The Trojan War is described as one of histories most legendary battles. This battle is told to have lasted ten years, resulting in the eventual collapse of Troy, under the siege of Greek forces. Modern knowledge of the Trojan War has survived mainly through the account given in Homer’s Illiad, and while having proved to be a rich source of inspiration for other writers, artists, and even filmmakers in recent history, much speculation still exists surrounding his account. I will analyze modern interpretations of the Trojan War and examine both speculation and support for Homer’s account. Concluding with sufficient evidence that has been collected surrounding this epic battle, proving Homer’s account of a massive battle between these two powerful city states to not be just a tale of myth and legend, but actual history.

For this project a group of people and I created a Trojan horse out of popsicle sticks.In the Odyssey the main character ,Odysseus, builds a huge horse out of wood as a strategy to defeat the Trojans, who are the enemy they have been at war with for a long time.He and his men hid inside of this horse and the Trojans unknowingly bring it inside of their city walls. Once inside the city Odysseus and his men surprise attack and win the war.This event is a big part in the Hero's Journey of the Odyssey because it starts the crossing of the threshold . After the war Poseidon, one of the greek Gods, gets angry with Odysseus for his prideful ways because Odysseus did not thank Poseidon for his help. And without Poseidon's help of concealing the horse

Hera offered him a kingship, Aphrodite offered marriage to Helen, and Athena offered him victory in war. Helen was the most beautiful women, so he chose Aphrodite. Helen was married to the king of Sparta. Paris and Aphrodite went to Sparta, and kidnapped her. This kidnapping started the Trojan War because the king wanted Helen back, so he declared war on Troy. Hera and Athena were on the side with the Greeks, and Aphrodite on the Trojans. Ares was Athena’s half-brother. They were war gods, but Ares was more violent while Athena involved skills over violence. They were enemies because they both fought during the Trojan War, Athena with the Greeks, and Ares with the Trojans. While in battle, Athena wounded him. Ares ran back to Zeus, and he healed him. Since that day forward, Ares and Athena have been enemies, and helped opposing sides in the Trojan war. Athena gave the idea of building the Trojan horse to Odyssey. It was a huge wooden horse that could secretly hold soldiers inside of it. The gift was from Athena, and the Greeks left it outside of Troy, and they pretended to sail home. At night, the Greeks slipped out of the horse, and attack Troy. From this attack, the Greeks were able to win the Trojan War. Athena was able to help the Greeks

The Trojan War was during the Bronze Age in the 12th or 13th century BC. It was between Greece and Troy. The Trojan War mainly started when the Greeks brought a wooden horse over to Troy as a sign of “peace.” However, it was used to take over Troy since there were many armed men in the horse. A downfall the Trojans had that led up to this point in time was that they were foolish, “Four times did the Horse halt as they dragged it, before it passed through the gate, and each time their might have been heard a great clashing of arms within” (Church 9). In the Horse, there were sounds being made but the Trojans did not pay attention to these signs and Troy suffered as a result. Overall, the Trojan War was created due to many gods fighting over Helen and because of this Troy was taken over by Greece and Aeneas and his crew had to relocate and find a new safe place to live with the help of Venus and Apollo by their side.

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.

During the Trojan War the Greek people needed a way to enter the city of Troy. That is when they built The Trojan Horse, the horse housed Greek soldiers because the people of troy had no idea what or who it was from. During the process of building the Greek

In the book Horror in Architecture, horror is defined in various ways, from horror being the truth about abstraction to horror reorienting the notion that what exists is not necessarily all that might be. Eight different typologies of horror are identified which includes Doubles and Clones, Exquisite Corpse, Partially and Mostly Dead, Reiteration and Reflexivity, Incontinent Object, Trojan Horse, Homunculism and Gigantism, Solidity, Mass, Stereotomy, Distortion, and Disproportion. The typology I’ll be basing my argument on is the Trojan Horse which has been defined by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing as a less obvious but equally disconcerting form of duality. It can also be perceived as a lack of indication about what is going on within. This paper intends to discuss the Trojan Horse typology of horror through the works of the architect Zaha Hadid who has produced a number of projects that fit into the Trojan Horse typology of horror. Projects which include the Vitra Fire station in Weil am Rhein, the MAXXI museum in Rome and the 1st floor interior design she did for the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, Spain illustrate the Trojan Horse typology because they have unpredictable interior spaces which subjects the exterior to some kind of random or stylistic treatment.