Trojan War by:Britney B.Dalzell

  • Jan 1, 1000

    The Wedding of Pelius and Thetis

    The Greek myth of Pelius life is marked by war and tragedy. When he murders his half-brother his father exiles him to Pithia where he is forgotten of his murder.And marries the daughter of the king of Pithia.And they has a immortal child and named him Achilles.
  • Jan 2, 1000

    The Judgement of Paris

    For one of this reasons strife threw a apple at the prize of beauty to be contented for by Hera, and Aphrodite; and zeus commanded Hermes to lead them to Paris on Ida in order to be judged by him.And they promise Alexander gifts.Hera said that if she preferred all women, and he decided in favor of Aphrodite.
  • Jan 3, 1000

    Elopement of Paris and Helen

    Elopement of Paris and Helen
    The the most beautiful woman in the world was Helen, one of the daughter of Tyndareus, king of Sparta. Her was Leda, who had been raped of seduced by zesus in form of swan. Leda had two pairs of twins the father was zesus and finally Odyseuss of Ithaca made a plan to solve the dilemma. He suggested that Tynddareus promise that he would defended the marriage of Helen.
  • Jan 4, 1000

    The gathering of Achaean forces and the first expedition

    According to Homer, Menelaus and his ally, Odysseus, traveled to Troy, where they unsuccessfully sought to recover Helen by diplomatic means. Menelaus then asked Agamemnon to uphold his oath. He agreed and sent emissaries to all the Achean kings and princes to observe their oaths and retrieve Helen.
  • Jan 5, 1000

    Odysseus and Achilles

    Since Menelaus wedding, Odysseus had marry Penelope and fathered a son, Telemachus. In order to avoid the war, he feigned madness and sowed his fields with salt. Palamedes put his infant son in front of a path and Odysseus turned aside, uwilling to kill his son not killing his son but forcing his father to join the war. Achilles had an affair with the kings daughter Deidamia resulting a child Neoptolemus.
  • Jan 6, 1000

    First gathering at Aulis

    The Achaean forces first gathered at Aulis. All the suitor sent their forces except King Cinyras of Cyprus. And he promised to send 50 ships, he sent only one real ship, led by the son Mygdalion and 49 ships made out of clay. Idomeneus was willing to lead the Cretan contingent in Mycennaes war against Troy.And it was granted the last commander was Achilles who was then 15 years old. Then troy fell in to a ten year war.
  • Jan 7, 1000

    Telephus

    When the Achaeans left for the war, they did not know the way and accidentally landed in Mysia ruled by king Telephus. In the battle Achilles wounded telephus who killed Thersander. Because the wound not heal, Telephus asked an oracle what willhappen to the wound and he responed that wound will heal. Telephus went to Aulis and either pretended to be a beggar asking Agamemnon to help heal his wounds or kidnappes Orestes and held him for ransom Achilles refused not have no medical knowlegde
  • Jan 8, 1000

    The second gathering

    Eight years after the storm had scattered them, the fleet of more than a thosand ships was gathered again. Artemis was punishing Agamemnon for killing a sacred grove and then boasted that he was a better hunter than she was. Trojon and Achaeans in the Iliad shared the same religion, and the same cultue enemy heroes speak to each others in the same language.
  • Jan 9, 1000

    Nine years of war

    Philoctetes was Heracles friend and because he lit Heracles funernal pyre when no one else wound he received Heracles bow and arrows. He sailed with seven ships full of men to the Trojon war where he was planning on fighting for Achaeans. And they were still asking for Helens return.
  • Jan 10, 1000

    Arrival

    Calchas had prophesied that the first Achaean to walk on land after stepping off a ship would be the first to die.[78] Thus even the leading Greeks hesitated to land. Finally, Protesilaus, leader of the Phylaceans, landed firstOdysseus had tricked him, in throwing his own shield down to land on, so that while he was first to leap off his ship, he was not the first to land on Trojan soil. Hector killed Protesilaus in single combat, though the Trojans conceded the beach.