Was there a Trojan War? The short answer is "probably."Though for most of modern history, archeologists believed that the war was just a legend, today it is accepted that there probably was such a war. The amateur archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, using The Iliad and the The Odissey of Homer as a guide, discovered the ruins of a powerful city in Asia Minor. The city is where Troy would have been, and was destroyed at the end of the 13th century.

City of Troy

Greek Trireme

Greek Navy

But the truth in the poems is only a kernel. Bards modified as they transmitted the poems through the dark centuries. The more interesting the poems, the more enthusiastic the response from their audiences, and the greater the stature of the poet. And the descriptions became more and more distorted, as features of the dark age culture became part of the poems. For example Homer speaks of iron in weapons, which was common in the iron age civilization of the dark ages, but which would not have been present in Mycenaean culture, a bronze age civilization. In The Iliad the leaders were cremated as they were in the Iron Age, while the Mycenaeans clearly buried their noble dead in tholos toombs.


Beautiful Hellen

Paris and Hellen

Battle of Troy

The evidence indicates that the Mycenaeans probably did sack Troy in around 1250 BCE. But around 1200 BCE sees the decline of the Mycenaenas. One theory of the Mycenaean fall may be found in Homer and Greek legends. The war took a toll on their civilization. When the kings returned they found their power weakened, and were engaged in power struggles. Odysseus, for example, when he finally arrived at Ithica, found his loyal wife Penelope hounded by suitors. She had reached the point where she had to accept one of them, who would then become the king. Other returning kings, such as Agamemnon, met bad fates.

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Trojan horse

Troja today

The Trojan War all started about 3,200 years ago.  It all started because in the city of Sparta because a young women named Helen dwelt there.
She married a man named Menelaus , this terribly angered an extremly handsome Prince named Paris of Troy, because the goddess Aphrodite promised Paris Helens hand in marriage after he said that she was the most beautiful goddess in the world. And she promised to grant him one wish so he said he wanted to marry her.He didn't get his wish so he decide that he would just steal her and marry her then.  When her husband found out he wasn't very happy at all so he waged and the Spartas war against the wonderful Prince and he recruted the "best" warrior ever known because he was inharmable except in his ankles his name was Achillies who was extremly ugly.The waged in war for over 10 years and Menelaus was losing intil they built the Trojan horse and they thoguht that it was a war gift so the stupidly took it into there land and in the night the ambused the city of Troy.  Achillis was a extremly good warrior intill he was caught off gaurd and Paris killed him with an arrow guided by the arm of Apollo.

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