trojan war?

Question

im not learning about the trojans yet
but i saw troy last night
and i was wondering what happened to the trojans
some people said trojan women and children were sold as slaves and trojan men were killed
some people said that the trojans fled and formed rome

which one is it??

Answer 1

Well, its the stuff of myths and legends really, so no one truely has a good idea of what happened. The end of the Bronze Age was such a chaotic period; that knowing who went where and did what to whom is impossible to know.

We know that troy was destroyed circa 1150 and archaeologically, there was a shift in pottery, indicating that a new people moved in, presumably- the previous inhabitants were either killed off or sold to slavery, or fled elsewhere. But, since Schliemann destroyed what he was looking for out of sheer foolishness/stupidity as he dug through it, we'll never know.

The Aeneid,, another Epic poem writes about a cousin of Paris named Aeneas (he actually makes a cameo in Troy, and Orlando Bloom gives him the sword of troy); according to the story, he led a group of trojans to Italy, and joined the Latins there, and his descendant founded Rome.

Answer 2

Believe me when I tell you there was a Troy and, it was recently discovered over the last few years.

The Trojans are now the Turks, the Greeks of course are still there. We will never know what really happen but, there weren't as many as you think. According to the Iliad there may have been thousands but all together and they fought, rather starved out the Trojans over a period of twenty years. The Greeks took turns putting the siege to Troy. Most wars back then were fought this way. No one wants to get a spear in the gut.
It made a good movie but, that's all. And it wasn't circa 1150 but about circa 3500 B.C.

Answer 3

Both. Aeneas escaped with his family (except his wife) and some of his men and sailed for Italy and he eventually would merge the Trojan race with the Latin race which would become Rome. Among the survivors, Vergil tells us that on his way Aeneas does see Andromache (Hector's wife) again.

If you're basing your knowledge of the Trojan war on the movie, you should also know that Agamemnon and Menelaus don't die in Troy. Menelaus goes home to Sparta again with his wife, Helen, and Agamemnon takes Kassandra and goes home to Mycenae where they are killed by his wife Clytemnaestra and her lover.

I should note that these are all mythological traditions. There probably was some sort of Trojan war but beyond that all the details are far from certain.

Answer 4

If there really was a Trojan war, and this is far from certain, who fought whom and what happened is lost to history.