Trojan War Outline

TROJAN WAR

I. The Trojan War began after the abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan.

A. The story of the Trojan War –The Bronze Age conflict between the kingdom of

Troy and Mycenaean Greece-Straddles the history and mythology of ancient

Greece.

B. After the Trojan defeat, the Greek heroes slowly made their way home.

Helen jinted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agament to lead an expedition.

This war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology.

1. The Trojan war was waged against the city of Troy by Achaeans

(Greeks) of Paris of Troy took Helen from husband Menelous. The ancient Greeks treated the Trojan War as a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century B.C.

2. Those who believed the Trojan

Proteslluas was a major treat that killed many people but the Trojans was killed by Hector in most versions of the story.

C. Back then they had Trojan horse.

1. The end of the War had one final thing, it was called a Trojan horse

.There in the horse there it was filled with soldiers. 1.The others of the army had burned there camp and sailed to Tenedos. 2.Both Cassandra and Lacoon warned against keeping the hoarse .3. The Trojans had decided to keep the hoarse and turned a night into furious to celebrating. 1. There was a big return of the Troy. A.. They were angry over the destruction of their temples and other sacrilegious acts by the

Achaeans. B. A storm had fell on the returning fleet off Tenos the island. 1. Nestor who had the best conduct in Troy and did not take part in looking.2.Agamemon had made it back to Anglos safely with

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Cassandra in his position after a

A.In the twentieth century scholars have attempted to draw conclusions based on Egyptian text that date to the time of the Trojan

War. B. In November 2001, geologist John V. Luke presented that he results of investigations into the geology of the region that had started in the 1997. 1. Around 1870 it was generally agreed in Western Europe that the Trojan War had never happened and Troy never existed. 2. The most Achaean heroes and founded colonies elsewhere was interpreted by Thucydides due to long absence. 3. 2 people had met a man named

Schliemann that Troy wasat Hissark and Scheman took over Calvert’s, this claim is now accepted by most school. The Trojan War had some epics. A. The historians date the completion of the lilac to about to about 750 B.C, Odysseys date 725.

B. Both began with the oral tradition, were first transcribed decades later or centuries after their composition. 1. There was so called an

‘Epic Cycle ‘of narratives assembled in the sixth century B.C. 2. The first century B.C the roman poet Virgil composed the ‘Aeneid’. 3.

Virgil’s aim was part in to give Rome’s first imperial dynasty.

The history, archeology and the Trojan War are very