Wikipedia: Trojan War (article prepared for film, pre-production research and background piece of work)

Posted on January 26, 2014 by johnrubens

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For the 1997 film, see Trojan War (film).


Trojan War


Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus
(Attic red-figure kylix, c. 500 BC)

The war

Setting:
Troy (modern Hisarlik, Turkey)
Period:
Bronze Age
Traditional dating: c. 1194–1184 BC
Modern dating: between 1260 and 1240 BC
Outcome: Greek victory, destruction of Troy
See also:
Historicity of the Iliad

Literary sources

Iliad ·
Epic Cycle ·
Aeneid, Book 2 ·
Iphigenia in Aulis ·
Philoctetes ·
Ajax ·
The Trojan Women ·
Posthomerica
See also:
Trojan War in popular culture

Episodes

Judgement of Paris · Seduction of Helen ·
Trojan Horse ·
Sack of Troy ·
The Returns ·
Wanderings of Odysseus ·
Aeneas and the Founding of Rome

Greeks and allies

Agamemnon ·
Achilles ·
Helen ·
Menelaus ·
Nestor ·
Odysseus ·
Ajax ·
Diomedes ·
Patroclus ·
Thersites ·
Achaeans ·
Myrmidons
See also:
Catalogue of Ships

Trojans and allies

Priam ·
Hecuba ·
Hector ·
Paris ·
Cassandra ·
Andromache ·
Aeneas ·
Memnon  ·
Troilus ·
Penthesilea and the Amazons ·
Sarpedon
See also:
Trojan Battle Order

Related topics

Homeric question ·
Archaeology of Troy ·
Mycenae ·
Bronze Age warfare

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In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has

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