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The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
18 gru 2009 · The story of the Trojan War—the Bronze Age conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece–straddles the history and mythology of ancient Greece and inspired the greatest writers...
22 mar 2018 · The Trojan War was fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age. The story has grabbed the imagination for millennia but a conflict between...
21 paź 2024 · What started the Trojan War? Was the Trojan War real? Who won the Trojan War? What happened to Achilles in the Trojan War? Trojan War, legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century bce.
9 sty 2020 · Did the Trojan War happen at all? What emerges is how eager people have been through history to find some truth in the story. The question is at the heart of Troy: Myth and Reality, a major...
4 lip 2022 · The Trojan War was a major conflict between the city of Troy and a number of Greek city-states, including Sparta, Argos, Corinth, Arcadia, Athens, and Boeotia. In Homer’s Iliad, the conflict began after the abduction of Helen, “The Face that Launched 1,000 Ships,” by the Trojan prince, Paris.
Waged by an Achaean alliance against the city of Troy, the war originated from a quarrel between three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) over a golden apple, thrown by the goddess of strife at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and inscribed with the words “for the fairest.”
