The Trojan War and the Fall of Troy?

Question

Can anyone give me a good website that has a brief summary of the Trojan War and the Fall of Troy. I've tried looking on google but doesn't seem to help. Thanks a million!!!

Answer 1

try wikipedia by looking under "trojan war," or if you're a geek like me, read adele geras' fictionalized version of the fall of troy called "troy."

hope i helped!!

Answer 2

Depends on if you want a mythological or historical account.

According to the legend, the war started because Paris of Troy ran off with Helen, the Queen of Sparta. Whereupon Menelaos, the King of Sparta, got together with his brother, Agamemnon, King of Mycenea, and gathered a large army to attack Troy.

It took them ten years to raise the army, and get there, and once they were there, they beseiged Troy for another ten years without taking it.  The Illiad recounts the (supposed) events of the 9th year of the Trojan war, in which a dispute over booty (literally) causes the warrior Achilles to withdraw from the fight. When the Greeks start losing, Achilles' friend Patroclus joins the battle and gets himself killed by Hector, the leader of the Trojan Army and heir to the throne. Whereupon, Achilles rejoins the battle to take revenge and does the Greeks an enormous favor by killing Hector. (Desecrating the body in the process).

With Hector dead, the Trojans were severely weakened, but the Greeks still don't manage to defeat them until a year later, when Odysseus comes up with the idea of the Trojan horse. The Greeks pretend to sail away, leaving the horse. The Trojans think it's a gift and bring it inside the citadel, and once they are all drunk and asleep after celebrating, the Greeks come out and open the gates for the rest of the army. Wherupon Troy is sacked and burned, it's temples are desecrated, the Greeks commit all sorts of war crimes (according to the standards of the era), enslave the women, and kill off the royal family.

End of story.

That's basically the myth. As far as real history is concerned, noone really knows. Though it's highly probable that there was a Trojan War,  upon which the myths are based, we really don't know anything about the details of that war.

Answer 3

www.stanford.edu

www.timelessmyths.com

Answer 4

If your looking for a real historical investigation I recommend Michael Wood's excellent series "In Search of the Trojan War" or read the book of the same name. You do understand that it is not known with certainty if the Trojan war was a real historical event.

Answer 5

http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history....

A very concise site

http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/t...

Detailed with lots of cross links by names of main characters, Gods, Goddesses, etc.

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Troj...

This site has translated quotes from the Illiad throughout.  Liked it alot - lots of detail.  

And of course -- Wiki!!

Answer 6

I could give you a pretty brief one right now.

Apparently Agamemnon started the war because paris took Helen fomr Agomemnons brother Menelous.(he's really just power hungry)

So anyways they started the whole war and the Mykene army was like way bigger than the Trojan army, so the trojans fought off for as long as they could...but the other army eventually got in. And I highly doubt by the way it was with a giant horse. You see, Hector, king Priams son, headed his own little army called the Trojan horse, they were ambushed and the mykene stole there armor. of course when the Trojans saw the beloved Trojan horse riding up they let them in...but it was really the Mykene. So of course Troy fell.

Now I know thats not at all an i depth description but you didnt really say what aspects of it you wanted to know.