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The Trojan War
The Trojan War may have been fact and fiction. The Trojan War was a story written by the Greek poet Homer. This version of the story takes place when Helen is involved in an elopement with Paris the Prince of Troy. The Greeks then waged war under the command of the Greek Agamemnon brother of Menelaus the husband of Helen. They fought 10 years in order to get Helen back from Troy. They sent thousands of well-trained experienced life devoted soldiers overseas to the walls of the great city of Troy and waged battle in efforts to conquer Troy while both armies were of great size and brute strength. The city and walls and soldiers of Troy were too strong resulting in many men's deaths. The Greeks devised a cunning plan to build a wooden horse that the Greek soldiers could hide in. They left it outside the city gate of Troy who accepted the horse as a gift and brought it in once inside the city walls the Greek soldiers then attacked the city of Troy. An alternate theory is that the Mycenaean's and the Hittite who fought over greed were at war and that Troy was caught in the middle ultimately causing it to fall in 13 BC.
There are remains of massive cities that support theories that great and powerful civilizations occupied the areas. However there is no evidence of a war being fought over a single woman. Likewise there is no known evidence that there is or ever was the Trojan horse that was built by the Greeks. We have limited evidence and educated guesses of why the war took place. We do have evidence that Troy was brought down by war during that time. But no real evidence of why the war started in the first place except that many of the theories of why war started then may be the exact same reason why wars start today. Over greed, money, power, land and overall livelihood which seem much more likely due to human nature and common sense.
The Greeks organized a massive fleet of ships that sailed for an extremely long amount of time prolonging the war many months causing it to last a good amount of the 10 years. It being one of the largest fleets during that time among the fleet of soldiers was Achilles which both was a large part of the Greek strategy. The events that followed were to bring about one of the most famous battles between Hector and Achilles. Eventually leading to Hectors death even though he was an extremely strong opponent he was defeated by Achilles who drug his corpse behind his chariot who was later slain by Paris who shot an arrow that struck his Heel killing him instantly. Which then lead to the infiltration of the wall.
The city of Troy was then destroyed there was no trade or taking of Helen once Troy was destroyed. Though land was conquered it is likely that the livelihood of many people were stripped away. The short term lust for wealth, land, power, was not a productive venture for either side long-term. However we have taken the name and used it for what we know as today as the Achilles tendon. This is located on the back of each leg in the ankle area above the heel. We've also referred to the Achilles heel as a weakness in any one structure, idea, or thing.
I personally believe that the Trojan War story by Homer may have been a story based on a previous war that was an inflated fabrication of the truth to strike interest among the readers by adding a compelling love story along with some cunning trickery. Many readers have enjoyed it for millennia. Had it been true we would still be more supporting evidence today instead of the vast lack of it. The war that may have brought down Troy was a detriment to all civilizations like many wars today that lead in loss of life, freedom and human decency. It seems even with stories and truths about the bloodshed of mankind we still fail to see or pay attention to or learn from our mistakes in history. Wars repeat lives are lost people who fail to see that the destruction of nature and mankind is counterproductive to a lucrative future for everything that exists on earth. Although I find it interesting that the idea of the Trojan horse concept is still used today especially in computers and internet f
fraud. I also have noted that Homer was a poet and storyteller not a historian and that it would have been more beneficial to him to elaborate the story.
assignment
A Horse is a Horse, of Course - or is it?
This is a five-paragraph assignment with the general title of The Trojan War The Trojan War goes on the title line of the essay above the first paragraph.). Remember: A paragraph is a minimum of five well-constructed sentences with a topic sentence. (A topic sentence gives an idea of what the paragraph is all about. Example: Although XX, XXX, and XXXX are the top singers today, they are alike and different in many ways.)
Start off with an Introductory Paragraph 1: Discuss the Trojan War, including a description of the 2 opposing armies, the historical period of time, the location, and the reasons for the war. Use information from the text and from the any other information you have seen.
Paragraph 2, 3 and 4: Check out the 4 websites shown below, concentrating on 2 of them. Write paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 including your answers to the following questions:
PARAGRAPH 2 :Was there really a Trojan War? What information can you find t
The Trojan War may have been fact and fiction. The Trojan War was a story written by the Greek poet Homer. This version of the story takes place when Helen is involved in an elopement with Paris the Prince of Troy. The Greeks then waged war under the command of the Greek Agamemnon brother of Menelaus the husband of Helen. They fought 10 years in order to get Helen back from Troy. They sent thousands of well-trained experienced life devoted soldiers overseas to the walls of the great city of Troy and waged battle in efforts to conquer Troy while both armies were of great size and brute strength. The city and walls and soldiers of Troy were too strong resulting in many men's deaths. The Greeks devised a cunning plan to build a wooden horse that the Greek soldiers could hide in. They left it outside the city gate of Troy who accepted the horse as a gift and brought it in once inside the city walls the Greek soldiers then attacked the city of Troy. An alternate theory is that the Mycenaean's and the Hittite who fought over greed were at war and that Troy was caught in the middle ultimately causing it to fall in 13 BC.
There are remains of massive cities that support theories that great and powerful civilizations occupied the areas. However there is no evidence of a war being fought over a single woman. Likewise there is no known evidence that there is or ever was the Trojan horse that was built by the Greeks. We have limited evidence and educated guesses of why the war took place. We do have evidence that Troy was brought down by war during that time. But no real evidence of why the war started in the first place except that many of the theories of why war started then may be the exact same reason why wars start today. Over greed, money, power, land and overall livelihood which seem much more likely due to human nature and common sense.
The Greeks organized a massive fleet of ships that sailed for an extremely long amount of time prolonging the war many months causing it to last a good amount of the 10 years. It being one of the largest fleets during that time among the fleet of soldiers was Achilles which both was a large part of the Greek strategy. The events that followed were to bring about one of the most famous battles between Hector and Achilles. Eventually leading to Hectors death even though he was an extremely strong opponent he was defeated by Achilles who drug his corpse behind his chariot who was later slain by Paris who shot an arrow that struck his Heel killing him instantly. Which then lead to the infiltration of the wall.
The city of Troy was then destroyed there was no trade or taking of Helen once Troy was destroyed. Though land was conquered it is likely that the livelihood of many people were stripped away. The short term lust for wealth, land, power, was not a productive venture for either side long-term. However we have taken the name and used it for what we know as today as the Achilles tendon. This is located on the back of each leg in the ankle area above the heel. We've also referred to the Achilles heel as a weakness in any one structure, idea, or thing.
I personally believe that the Trojan War story by Homer may have been a story based on a previous war that was an inflated fabrication of the truth to strike interest among the readers by adding a compelling love story along with some cunning trickery. Many readers have enjoyed it for millennia. Had it been true we would still be more supporting evidence today instead of the vast lack of it. The war that may have brought down Troy was a detriment to all civilizations like many wars today that lead in loss of life, freedom and human decency. It seems even with stories and truths about the bloodshed of mankind we still fail to see or pay attention to or learn from our mistakes in history. Wars repeat lives are lost people who fail to see that the destruction of nature and mankind is counterproductive to a lucrative future for everything that exists on earth. Although I find it interesting that the idea of the Trojan horse concept is still used today especially in computers and internet f
fraud. I also have noted that Homer was a poet and storyteller not a historian and that it would have been more beneficial to him to elaborate the story.
assignment
A Horse is a Horse, of Course - or is it?
This is a five-paragraph assignment with the general title of The Trojan War The Trojan War goes on the title line of the essay above the first paragraph.). Remember: A paragraph is a minimum of five well-constructed sentences with a topic sentence. (A topic sentence gives an idea of what the paragraph is all about. Example: Although XX, XXX, and XXXX are the top singers today, they are alike and different in many ways.)
Start off with an Introductory Paragraph 1: Discuss the Trojan War, including a description of the 2 opposing armies, the historical period of time, the location, and the reasons for the war. Use information from the text and from the any other information you have seen.
Paragraph 2, 3 and 4: Check out the 4 websites shown below, concentrating on 2 of them. Write paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 including your answers to the following questions:
PARAGRAPH 2 :Was there really a Trojan War? What information can you find t