Were the Trojan people real
The Trojans were an ancient people who are thought to have been based in modern-day Turkey. Historians are unsure if they were descendants of Greeks or from elsewhere, most of what we know comes from Greeks written much later, such as the famous Greek writer, Homer.
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Is Achilles based on a real person
Most of us think he was a mythologic Greek hero (Figure 1). The truth is that there may well have been a real Thessalian warrior, later mythologized by his semi-literate people. The story goes that his mother, Thetis, made him invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx while he was still an infant.
What happened to the original Trojan Horse
Despite the warnings of Laocoön and Cassandra, the horse was taken inside the city gates. That night Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the returned Greek army. The story is told at length in Book II of the Aeneid and is touched upon in the Odyssey.
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Is the Trojan Horse still standing up
A replica of the Trojan Horse stands today in Turkey, the modern day location of the city of Troy.
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Is Trojan Horse a myth or history
But was it just a myth Probably, says Oxford University classicist Dr Armand D'Angour: 'Archaeological evidence shows that Troy was indeed burned down; but the wooden horse is an imaginative fable, perhaps inspired by the way ancient siege-engines were clothed with damp horse-hides to stop them being set alight.
How many people died in the Trojan horse
Two hundred forty battlefield deaths are described in The Iliad, 188 Trojans, and 52 Greeks.
Who killed Achilles in Troy
Trojan prince Paris
How does Achilles die Achilles is killed by an arrow, shot by the Trojan prince Paris. In most versions of the story, the god Apollo is said to have guided the arrow into his vulnerable spot, his heel.
Is the story of Troy and Achilles true
There is, for example, no evidence that Achilles or even Helen existed. But most scholars agree that Troy itself was no imaginary Shangri-la but a real city, and that the Trojan War indeed happened.
Did Troy fall because of the Trojan Horse
According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse and pretended to sail for home. Unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse was filled with Greek warriors. They sacked Troy after the Trojans brought the horse inside the city walls.
How many people died in the Trojan Horse
Two hundred forty battlefield deaths are described in The Iliad, 188 Trojans, and 52 Greeks.
Did the battle of Troy really happen
While Greeks of the Classical period believed The Iliad to be a factual account of history, today, there is no apparent scholarly consensus on whether or not the Trojan War took place, nor to what degree Homer's work reflected an actual time in Greek history.
Was Achilles killed before the Trojan Horse
Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan prince Hector outside the gates of Troy. Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the Iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him with an arrow.
When did the Trojan Horse exist
1184 B.C.: During the Trojan War, the Greeks depart in ships, leaving behind a large wooden horse as a victory offering.
Who killed Paris of Troy
archer Philoctetes
Paris himself, soon after, received a fatal wound from an arrow shot by the rival archer Philoctetes.
Did anyone survive the Trojan War
Thus Troy is captured; all the inhabitants are either slain or carried into slavery, and the city is destroyed. The only survivors of the royal house are Helenus, Aeneas, Hector's wife Andromache, and Cassandra, who is taken as a war prize by Agamemnon.
Who killed Helen of Troy
According to a variant of the story, Helen, in widowhood, was driven out by her stepsons and fled to Rhodes, where she was hanged by the Rhodian queen Polyxo in revenge for the death of her husband, Tlepolemus, in the Trojan War.
Who killed Achilles at Troy
the Trojan prince Paris
How does Achilles die Achilles is killed by an arrow, shot by the Trojan prince Paris. In most versions of the story, the god Apollo is said to have guided the arrow into his vulnerable spot, his heel. In one version of the myth Achilles is scaling the walls of Troy and about to sack the city when he is shot.
Did the battle of Troy actually happen
Was the Trojan War real There has been much debate over historical evidence of the Trojan War. Archaeological finds in Turkey suggest that the city of Troy did exist but that a conflict on the immense scale of a 10-year siege may not have actually occurred.
Did any Trojans survive the fall of Troy
Thus Troy is captured; all the inhabitants are either slain or carried into slavery, and the city is destroyed. The only survivors of the royal house are Helenus, Aeneas, Hector's wife Andromache, and Cassandra, who is taken as a war prize by Agamemnon.
Is the story of Troy and Helen true
Much of it is no doubt fantasy. There is, for example, no evidence that Achilles or even Helen existed. But most scholars agree that Troy itself was no imaginary Shangri-la but a real city, and that the Trojan War indeed happened.
Who actually killed Achilles
How does Achilles die Achilles is killed by an arrow, shot by the Trojan prince Paris. In most versions of the story, the god Apollo is said to have guided the arrow into his vulnerable spot, his heel.
Did Troy fall because of the Trojan horse
According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse and pretended to sail for home. Unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse was filled with Greek warriors. They sacked Troy after the Trojans brought the horse inside the city walls.
Is the Trojan War a myth or history
Greeks of the classical period regarded the Trojan War as a genuine historical occurrence, and Homer's Troy came to be identified with a smallish hill, 6 km east of the Aegean coast and 4.5 km south of the Dardanelles, on which a citadel had stood.
Did anyone survive the battle of Troy
The more common version, however, made Aeneas the leader of the Trojan survivors after Troy was taken by the Greeks. In any case, Aeneas survived the war, and his figure was thus available to compilers of Roman myth.
What happened to Paris and Helen after Troy fell
Ultimately, Paris was killed in action, and in Homer's account Helen was reunited with Menelaus, though other versions of the legend recount her ascending to Olympus instead. A cult associated with her developed in Hellenistic Laconia, both at Sparta and elsewhere; at Therapne she shared a shrine with Menelaus.
