wat happened in the trojan war?

Question

i need alot of help with this so if u know ne thing it would be really helpful!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

In a nutshell :

Trojans visit Greece
Trojan prince fancies Greek wife
Trojan prince abducts / elopes with Greek wife
Greek husband cheesed off
Greek husband convinces mates to invade Troy to recover wife
Greeks attack Troy
Stalemate for many years
Greeks pretend to clear off and leave large wooden horse as a prezzy
Trojans wheel horse into city, have a big party and get drunk
Greek warriors hiding in horse open city gates and allow rest of Greek army
Greeks slaughter Trojans and raze city
Odysseus gets lost on the way home

For a full story, read Homer's Iliad (see link 1). If you don't have time for this, read Sparknotes on the Iliad (see link 2) or read the Wikipedia entry (see link 3)

Answer 2

During the Trojan War the Greeks fought the Trojans for ten years with seasonal breaks so that the harvest could be tended to. Unable to get there by traditional means, the Greeks tried a more clandestine operation. They created the Trojan Horse and put what would be the equivelent of a swat team inside of it. Then they pretended to sail away. Rather than really leave, they went to the other side of the city and waited for the gate to be opened.

Answer 3

The war sprang from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple with the inscription "to the fairest" (sometimes known as the Apple of Discord). The goddesses went to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, 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.

Answer 4

I'll try to give you an overview but you should read Homer's The Illiad.

The prince of Troy ran off with Menaleus' wife Helen.

Menaleus is the brother of the king so he gets his bro to bring the greeks to war with the Trojans.

There are a bunch of bloody battles and the war lasts for (i think) 10 years.

Achilleus (or achilles depending on your version) is pissed off with Agamemnon (the king) and refuses to fight for most of the story. (a common subtitle to the illiad is "The wrath of Achilleus.) but Hector, prince of Troy, kills one of Achilleus' friends and he fights for revenge.

Achilleus kills hector (theres more to this too. like I said, read the book.)

The rest isnt really in the illiad but

Odysseus comes up with the idea of the trojan horse and sneaks soldiers into the city through it then opens the gates so the army can get in.

Troy falls, the greeks win. Helen goes back to her husband.

Answer 5

the greeks built a wooden horse and hid into it, the trojans too the horse into the city, during the nigth the greeks came out of the horse opened the city doors and llet the greek army in and they killed most of the troyans, the one that were left went to italy and founded rome

Answer 6

in Greek legend, famous war waged by the Greeks against the city of Troy. The tradition is believed to reflect a real war between the Greeks of the late Mycenaean period and the inhabitants of the Troad, or Troas, in Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. Modern archaeological excavations have shown that Troy was destroyed by fire in the early 12th century bc, the traditional date of the war, and that the war may actually have resulted from the desire either to plunder the wealthy city or to put an end to Troy's commercial control of the Dardanelles.

Legendary accounts of the war traced its origin to a golden apple, inscribed “for the fairest” and thrown by Eris, goddess of discord, among the heavenly guests at the wedding of Peleus, the ruler of Myrmidons, and Thetis, one of the Nereids. The award of the apple to Aphrodite, goddess of love, by Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, secured for Paris the favor of the goddess and the love of the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. Helen went with Paris to Troy, and an expedition to avenge the injury to Menelaus was placed under the command of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Agamemnon's force included many famous Greek heroes, the most noted of whom were Achilles, Patroclus, the two Ajaxes, Teucer, Nestor, Odysseus, and Diomedes.

After the Trojans refused to restore Helen to Menelaus, the Greek warriors assembled at the Bay of Aulis and proceeded to Troy in 1000 ships. The siege lasted ten years, the first nine of which were uneventful. In the tenth year, Achilles withdrew from battle because of his anger with Agamemnon; Achilles' action furnished Homer with the theme of the Iliad. To avenge the death of his friend Patroclus, Achilles returned to battle and killed Hector, the principal Trojan warrior. Subsequent events, described in later epic poems, included Achilles' victories over Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons, and Memnon, king of Ethiopia, and the death of Achilles at the hands of Paris.

The city of Troy was captured at last by treachery. A force of Greek warriors gained entrance to the city by hiding in the interior of a large wooden horse. Subsequently the Greeks sacked and burned the city. Only a few Trojans escaped, the most famous being Aeneas, who led the other survivors to what is present-day Italy; this story is told by Vergil in the Aeneid.

The return of the Greek warriors to Greece inspired epic poems, the most celebrated being that of Odysseus, whose 10-year wanderings and arrival in Ithaca are told in Homer's Odyssey.