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.

The Trojan War in art

The story of the siege of Troy provided inspiration for many pieces of art, most famously Homer's Iliad, set in the last year of the siege.

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Homer - Iliad

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Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (1855-1858).

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Euripides - Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer - Les Troyens - Hector Berlioz - 1855 - 1858

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