Trojan War

The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which only two, the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, survive intact. The Iliad describes an episode late in this war, and the Odyssey describes the journey home of one of the Greek leaders, Odysseus. Other parts of the story, and different versions, were elaborated by later Greek poets, and by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid.

External links

• Timeless Myths - Trojan War A full summary of the Trojan War.
• Was There a Trojan War? Maybe so. From Archeology, a publication of the Archeological Institute of America. May/June 2004
• The Trojan War at Greek Mythology Link
• The Legend of the Trojan War