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Trojan War

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.

Trojan War

The Origin of the Trojan War

Iphigenia in Aulis

Protesilaus and Laodamia

The Trojan War in Homer's Illiad

The Enlistment of the Gods in the Trojan War

Agamemnon Calls A Council

Paris Plays the Champion

Trojan Battles - The Two Days' Battle

Neptune Aids the Discouraged Greeks

Achilles and Patroclus in the Trojan War

The Deaths of Sarpedon and Patroclus

The Reconciliation of Agamemnon and Achilles

The Death of Hector in the Trojan War

Priam in the Tent of Achilles

The Fall of Troy:

The End of the Illiad

The Death of Achilles

Paris and CEnone

The "Trojan"Wooden Horse in the War

The Death of Priam and Results of the Fall


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)