Trojan Wars
Trojan Wars: The Story
The Story of the Trojan War in mythology is told through passages from Homer's Illiad and the works of other classic poets.
The war was waged against Troy by the Greeks
and lasted for ten years. The war was caused by the abduction of
Helen by Paris.
The war ended with the destruction of Troy.
. At length I saw a lady within call,
Stiller than chisel'd marble, standing there;
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.
Her loveliness with shame and with surprise
Froze my swift speech: she turning on my face
The starlike sorrows of immortal eyes,
Spoke slowly in her place.
"I had great beauty; ask thou not my name:
No one can be more wise than destiny.
Many drew swords and died. Where'er I came
I brought calamity."
(From Tennyson's Dream of Fair
Women)
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