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<blockquote data-quote="පාහරයා" data-source="post: 6850835" data-attributes="member: 270988"><p>In <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_mythology" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Greek mythology</span></a>, the <strong>Trojan War</strong> was waged against the city of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Troy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Troy</span></a> by the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Achaeans" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Achaeans</span></a> (Greeks) after <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Paris_(mythology)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Paris</span></a> of Troy stole <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Helen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Helen</span></a> from her husband <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Menelaus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Menelaus</span></a>, the king of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Sparta" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Sparta</span></a>. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_literature" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Greek literature</span></a>, including the <em><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Iliad" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Iliad</span></a></em> and the <em><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Odyssey" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Odyssey</span></a></em> by <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Homer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Homer</span></a>. "The Iliad" relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while the <em>Odyssey</em> describes the journey home of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Odysseus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Odysseus</span></a>, one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Epic_Cycle" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">cycle of epic poems</span></a>, which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_tragedy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Greek tragedy</span></a> and other works of Greek literature, and for <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Latin_literature" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Roman</span></a> poets like <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Virgil" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Virgil</span></a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ovid" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Ovid</span></a>.</p><p>The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Athena" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Athena</span></a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Hera" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Hera</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Aphrodite" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Aphrodite</span></a>, after <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Eris</span></a>, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Golden_apple" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">golden apple</span></a>, sometimes known as the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Apple_of_Discord" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Apple of Discord</span></a>, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Judgement" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">judged</span></a> that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Helen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Helen</span></a>, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Paris_(mythology)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Paris</span></a>, who took her to Troy. <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Agamemnon" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Agamemnon</span></a>, king of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Mycenae" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Mycenae</span></a> and the brother of Helen's husband <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Menelaus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Menelaus</span></a>, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Achilles" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Achilles</span></a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ajax_(mythology)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Ajax</span></a>, and the Trojans <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Hector" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Hector</span></a> and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Trojan_Horse" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Trojan Horse</span></a>. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ancient_Rome" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Romans</span></a> later traced their origin to <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Aeneas" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Aeneas</span></a>, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Italy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Italy</span></a>.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ancient_Greece" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Ancient Greeks</span></a> thought the Trojan War was a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern day <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Turkey_(country)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Turkey</span></a> near the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Dardanelles" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Dardanelles</span></a>. By modern times both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. In 1870, however, German <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Archaeology" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">archaeologist</span></a> <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Heinrich Schliemann</span></a> excavated a site in this area which he identified as Troy; this claim is nowadays accepted by most scholars.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">[1]</span></a> Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Siege" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">sieges</span></a> and expeditions by <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Mycenaean Greeks</span></a> during the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Bronze_Age" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Bronze Age</span></a>. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War derive from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eratosthenes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Eratosthenes</span></a>, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Troy_VIIa" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Troy VIIa</span></a>.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">[2]</span></a>......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="පාහරයා, post: 6850835, member: 270988"] In [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_mythology"][COLOR=#002bb8]Greek mythology[/COLOR][/URL], the [B]Trojan War[/B] was waged against the city of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Troy"][COLOR=#002bb8]Troy[/COLOR][/URL] by the [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Achaeans"][COLOR=#002bb8]Achaeans[/COLOR][/URL] (Greeks) after [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Paris_(mythology)"][COLOR=#002bb8]Paris[/COLOR][/URL] of Troy stole [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Helen"][COLOR=#002bb8]Helen[/COLOR][/URL] from her husband [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Menelaus"][COLOR=#002bb8]Menelaus[/COLOR][/URL], the king of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Sparta"][COLOR=#002bb8]Sparta[/COLOR][/URL]. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_literature"][COLOR=#002bb8]Greek literature[/COLOR][/URL], including the [I][URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Iliad"][COLOR=#002bb8]Iliad[/COLOR][/URL][/I] and the [I][URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Odyssey"][COLOR=#002bb8]Odyssey[/COLOR][/URL][/I] by [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Homer"][COLOR=#002bb8]Homer[/COLOR][/URL]. "The Iliad" relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while the [I]Odyssey[/I] describes the journey home of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Odysseus"][COLOR=#002bb8]Odysseus[/COLOR][/URL], one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Epic_Cycle"][COLOR=#002bb8]cycle of epic poems[/COLOR][/URL], which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_tragedy"][COLOR=#002bb8]Greek tragedy[/COLOR][/URL] and other works of Greek literature, and for [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Latin_literature"][COLOR=#002bb8]Roman[/COLOR][/URL] poets like [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Virgil"][COLOR=#002bb8]Virgil[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ovid"][COLOR=#002bb8]Ovid[/COLOR][/URL]. The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Athena"][COLOR=#002bb8]Athena[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Hera"][COLOR=#002bb8]Hera[/COLOR][/URL], and [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Aphrodite"][COLOR=#002bb8]Aphrodite[/COLOR][/URL], after [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eris_(mythology)"][COLOR=#002bb8]Eris[/COLOR][/URL], the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Golden_apple"][COLOR=#002bb8]golden apple[/COLOR][/URL], sometimes known as the [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Apple_of_Discord"][COLOR=#002bb8]Apple of Discord[/COLOR][/URL], marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Judgement"][COLOR=#002bb8]judged[/COLOR][/URL] that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Helen"][COLOR=#002bb8]Helen[/COLOR][/URL], the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Paris_(mythology)"][COLOR=#002bb8]Paris[/COLOR][/URL], who took her to Troy. [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Agamemnon"][COLOR=#002bb8]Agamemnon[/COLOR][/URL], king of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Mycenae"][COLOR=#002bb8]Mycenae[/COLOR][/URL] and the brother of Helen's husband [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Menelaus"][COLOR=#002bb8]Menelaus[/COLOR][/URL], led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Achilles"][COLOR=#002bb8]Achilles[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ajax_(mythology)"][COLOR=#002bb8]Ajax[/COLOR][/URL], and the Trojans [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Hector"][COLOR=#002bb8]Hector[/COLOR][/URL] and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Trojan_Horse"][COLOR=#002bb8]Trojan Horse[/COLOR][/URL]. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ancient_Rome"][COLOR=#002bb8]Romans[/COLOR][/URL] later traced their origin to [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Aeneas"][COLOR=#002bb8]Aeneas[/COLOR][/URL], one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Italy"][COLOR=#002bb8]Italy[/COLOR][/URL]. The [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ancient_Greece"][COLOR=#002bb8]Ancient Greeks[/COLOR][/URL] thought the Trojan War was a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern day [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Turkey_(country)"][COLOR=#002bb8]Turkey[/COLOR][/URL] near the [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Dardanelles"][COLOR=#002bb8]Dardanelles[/COLOR][/URL]. By modern times both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. In 1870, however, German [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Archaeology"][COLOR=#002bb8]archaeologist[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann"][COLOR=#002bb8]Heinrich Schliemann[/COLOR][/URL] excavated a site in this area which he identified as Troy; this claim is nowadays accepted by most scholars.[URL="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-0"][COLOR=#002bb8][1][/COLOR][/URL] Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Siege"][COLOR=#002bb8]sieges[/COLOR][/URL] and expeditions by [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece"][COLOR=#002bb8]Mycenaean Greeks[/COLOR][/URL] during the [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Bronze_Age"][COLOR=#002bb8]Bronze Age[/COLOR][/URL]. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War derive from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eratosthenes"][COLOR=#002bb8]Eratosthenes[/COLOR][/URL], 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of [URL="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Troy_VIIa"][COLOR=#002bb8]Troy VIIa[/COLOR][/URL].[URL="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-1"][COLOR=#002bb8][2][/COLOR][/URL]...... [/QUOTE]
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