does anyone know alot about the stupid trojan war?

Question

i need hw help!!!i have to write jake journal entries about that as a female at that time...i have no idea whats it about except that it was the trojans against some other ppl and the trjans got in their castle thingy with a wooden horse and stole helen, the wife of someone and i think it was in greece...and some other guy homer is in it........anyways i dont get and i think theres more to it....i read about it online and in books but i still dont get it(i kno im kinda stupid) can someone explain it to me asap

p.s i have to know what the females did, did they heal the wounded soldiers or whatever

i need help and fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The Trojan War was described in Homer's epic poem "The Illiad." Contrary to popular belief, there is no wooden horse in "The Illiad," but it appears in a much later work.

Many women were affected by the Trojan War. Though the war lasted only 10 years, it influenced the future. Because of it, kings, such as Agamemnon, were murdered and queens, such as Dido, died in grief.

Each woman brings a unique perspective. Those in Troy got to see the war first-hand (Andromache, Briseis, Cassandra, Creusa, Hecuba, Helen, Penthesilea, Polyxena, Tecmessa). Others waited in distant lands for the war to end (Clytemnestra, Deidameia, Laodamia, Penelope). Some were not affected until the war had ended (Dido). And some took a more active stance in the war by wielding swords and fighting (Penthesilea and the Amazons).

The Trojan War turned lives upside down and created a vast array of myths.

Answer 2

Yeah, there were a lot of stupid Trojans, and they liked a Frankie Goes To Hollywood song called "War!".

They asked the clever Trojans if they could start a war against the Aztecs, but the clever Trojans said they were too busy studying, and advised the stupid Trojans that just because they liked a song, it didn't mean they had to go and act out the lyrics.

Jake, the leader of the stupid Trojans, along with his friends Homer and Socrates decided to have a war anyway, so they built a massive wooden duck (some accounts say it was a horse, but actually they didn't have horses back then in Greece), hid inside, and left it outside the Aztecs walled city called Troy.

The Aztecs' favourite food was duck and they thought the giant duck must have been a gift from the gods, so they took it inside their city and left it overnight.

During the night, Jake and his crew of stupid Trojans sneaked out into the city and started singing their favourite song "War!". The Aztecs heard them, surrounded them and slaughtered them.

Because of their complete failure, it came to be known as the stupid Trojan war. We only know of this account because Jake kept a journal, which the Aztecs found when they looked inside the wooden duck. After slaughtering Jake and his crew, they found out that Jake was really a woman, and like Mulan and Yentl she hid her true identity in a very patriarchal world.

Answer 3

It's not stupid. It's a love story and an epic. And it sounds like you're in BIG trouble. First. the other people are Greeks. Troy is a populated by greeks too, but they are in what is now Turkey. The Wooden horse was suppose to be agift when supposedly the greeks figured out they can't break through the Walls of troy. They Allegedly left it for the Trojans and sailed home because they gave up in the invasian. When the trojans brought it into their city, at night the found out too late that the greeks were hiding in the horse rather than sailed away. The greeks slaughtered the trojan. As for your job, you are a female and they don't fight. They probably stayed home and cried alot over the deaths caused by the war. The story is a tragedy. They probably did do some bandaging and cooking, but not much.

Answer 4

this is not definitively prevalent. there's a area at Hisarlik, Turkey it truly is the area of Roman-era Troy (from ~40 4 BCE onward), which change into believed on the time to also be the area of historic Troy. this is been excavated and there is significant help for it being historic Troy, inspite of the indisputable fact that this is not conclusive yet. consequently it hasn't been conclusively prevalent that the Trojan warfare (~1200 BCE) easily occured. The ruins look to slot factors of the tale, yet do not journey fullyyt. Up till the merely good century, it change into frequently believed that the Trojan warfare change into fullyyt mythological. inspite of the indisputable fact that, frequently because of the discoveries at Hisarlik, many archologists and historians now have self assurance that the Trojan warfare change right into a actual journey, besides the actual incontrovertible truth that the activities contained in the Illiad are frequently fictional. some imagine that the tale easily is a composite of various diverse Bronze Age conflicts, even as others have self assurance that it change into one journey and it occured on the area of Hisarlik. in my opinion, i imagine that it change right into a actual journey and that Hisarlik change into the position it befell, and the thoughts do merely not journey because plenty change into made up and changed from the real activities.

Answer 5

i can't really tell the whole story but i thinkit started when eris was not invited in a feast(i think) and so he gave a golden apple to the three goddesses (athena, hera and aphrodite) and the apple has the inscription "to the fairest"then they wentto paris and paris judged aphrodite as the fairest and in return aphrodite made helen the most beautiful of all women, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans mercilessly slaughtered the Trojans and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to Italy.

Homer was a legendary early Greek poet and aoidos ("singer") traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The poems are often dated to the 8th or 7th century BC; whether Homer himself was a historical individual who lived during this period is debated by scholars.
and that's all i can remember sorry if that is not enough for you

Answer 6

First--get a copy of the Aeneid and read it. Plus a summary of the story of the Trojan war--ask a libraian to help you find one.

Second--change your attitude about learning--right now I'll guarantee you are just taking up space in the class, wasting the teacher's time as well as everyone else's.

The second is a lot more important--unless you want to spend your life as a loser.

Answer 7

Rent a Monty Python movie.

Answer 8

Trojan War Women
The major women involved in the stories about the Trojan War: Helen of Troy, Iphigenia, Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Andromache, Hecuba, Briseis, and Polyxena.

#Andromache
Andromache loved her husband Hector who was killed by Achilles. With Hector she gave birth to Scamander or Astyanax who was hurled from the walls of Troy. After Troy fell, Andromache was given as a war prize to Neoptolemus, by whom she gave birth to Pergamus.

## Briseis
After Achilles killed Briseis' husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessus, he took Briseis as his concubine. When Agamemnon had to give up his own concubine, he commandeered Briseis. As a result, Achilles refused to fight for Agamemnon. Although a concubine, Achilles loved Briseis and she him. However unlikely, Briseis expected Achilles to marry her because of something Patroclus said.

# Cassandra
Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba of Troy, was Agamemnon's war prize whom he brought back home with him. Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo in exchange for her favors, but when Cassandra reneged, he punished her by letting her keep the gift, but preventing anyone from believing her. The utterances of Cassandra were thought the ravings of a mad woman.

# Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Leda and Tyndareus, and the wife of King Agamemnon. Clytemnestra ruled while her husband was away. When Agamemnon returned (after having murdered their daughter Iphigenia), with Cassandra as concubine in tow, Clytemnestra killed her husband. Orestes, their son, killed her.

# Hecuba
Hecuba was the mother of many children with her husband King Priam of Troy, including Cassandra, Paris, Hector, and Deiphobus. Before her son Paris was born Hecuba had a vision that was interpreted to mean she would give birth to the destruction of Troy.

# Helen
Helen of Troy was the daughter of Leda and Zeus, sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux (the Dioscuri), and wife of Menelaus. The beauty of Helen of Troy was so overwhelming that Theseus and Paris of Troy abducted her and the Trojan War was fought to bring her back home. Helen of Troy is referred to as the face that launched a thousand ships.

# Iphigenia
Iphigenia was the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. Agamemnon had angered the goddess Artemis. In order to propitiate the goddess, Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis where the Achaean fleet was impatiently waiting for a wind to cross over to Troy. In order to trick Iphigenia into coming, Agamemnon sent word to Clytemnestra that Iphigenia was to marry Achilles, so Clytemnestra willingly brought her daughter to the wedding/sacrifice. In some versions of the story, Artemis saved Iphigenia at the last minute.

# Polyxena
Polyxena was the youngest daughter of Hecuba and Priam of Troy. At the end of the Trojan War she was sacrificed on the tomb of Achilles in accordance with a dying request of the hero. Whether Achilles wanted her dead so Polyxena could join him in the afterlife or to repay her for betraying his weak spot -- Achilles' heel -- is not clear, but Achilles fell in love with her when he waw her at the fountain where her brother Troilus was watering his horses.

Hope it'll help =)

Answer 9

Try here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_war

And then follow whatever links they have. That should tell you quite a bit.