There was a saying in old Greece- Be aware of Greeks bearing gifts. The saying comes from a legend Trojan horse.
A long long time ago there was a city-state on the coast of turkey, across the sea from Sparta. The city-state was called Troy. At the time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were very nice friends but that all changed.Troy had a 20ft wall around the city to protect it so it made it very easy for the guards to stay put.
Odysseus, a Greek general had a idea! His idea was to build a beautiful, magnificent wooden horse and they would leave it outside the gates of Troy. The people in Troy will thing they gave up but inside would be 30 men hiding inside. That's what they did.
While the Greek warriors sailed to Troy, all the people from Troy gathered outside cheering. They didn't burn it they kept it on display. That's what the Greek General thought they would do. Then while they were sleeping the Greek warriors snuck silently into the city and that begone the Trojan war.
A long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they rained arrows down on the people below, who were trying to break into the city.
The Greek warriors had been trying to breach the wall around Troy for about ten years. The Greeks could not find a way in, and the Trojans did not seem able to drive the Greeks away.
Odysseus, a Greek general, had an idea. His plan was to build a horse, a beautiful and huge wooden horse, and leave it outside the gate. Then, the entire Greek army would pretend to leave, as if they had finally admitted defeat. But the horse would be hollow. Thirty men would be hiding inside. That's what they did.
As the Greek warriors sailed away, the people of Troy rushed outside, cheering. They found the horse. Fortunately, they did not try to burn the horse. They dragged the horse inside the city gates to keep it on display, which is just what the Greek general thought they would do - gloat.
That night, while the Trojan people were sleeping, the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. The waiting Greek army entered Troy. That was the end of Troy.
1.10 year the Greeks constructed a wooden horse and hid a select of forse men inside. 2. The Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. 1.The trojan war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology. 2.The Greeks enterd and distroyed the city of troy. 3. And then decievly ending the war.
The Trojan War began when Paris, Prince of Troy, ran away with Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. The Greeks sent a fleet of ships, with an army, to get her back. The war lasted for 10 years. In single combat, the greatest Greek warrior, Achilles, killed the Trojan leader Hector. In the end the Greeks won, by a clever trick using a wooden horse.The Trojans lived in the city of Troy, in what is now Turkey. The story of their war with the Greeks is told in the Iliad, a long poem dating from the 700s BC, and said to be by a storyteller named Homer. The Odyssey, also by Homer, is the tale of the adventures of a Greek soldier named Odysseus, after the war.
1. The Trojan War was fought between the Greeks (Mycenaeans) and the defenders of the city of Troy (Hittites) in Anatolia (now part of Turkey)
2. The war took place at the end of the Bronze Age about 3000 years ago
3. We know about the Trojan War from the epic stories written by the famous Greek writer and poet Homer
4. The Trojan War started when the Trojan prince Paris eloped or abducted with Helen the wife of Menelaus whose brother was the Spartan King Agamemnon
5. King Agamemnon brought together the armies of various Greek cities such as Athens, Argos, Corinth, Crete and Rhodes. Greeks sailed across the Aegean Sea to battle with Trojan Army. It is said that Helen was “the face that launched a thousand ships”.
6. Amongst the Greeks there were some extra special heroes who displayed great courage on the battlefield; the most important being Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax and Diomedes.
7. Trojan army was led by King Priam and was supported by a long list of allies such as Carians, Halizones, Kaukones, Mysians and others.
8. Trojan also had their heroes that included Hektor (son of Priam), Aeneas, Sarpedon, Glaukos, and others.
9. The Trojan War was in fact a protracted siege of the city of Troy that lasted for several months. The Greek army could not break through the magnificent fortification.
10. In the end the Greeks came up with a plan to trick the king of Troy. At night the Greek army built a huge wooden horse that housed 30 to 40 soldiers. Then they got in their ships and sailed away.
11. The people of Troy brought the wooden horse back to their city believing that it was a gift from the Greeks and started celebrating their victory.
12. The next night the Greek army sailed back and waited outside the gates to the city. Whilst everyone in Troy was fast asleep the Greek soldiers climbed down from the wooden horse using ropes and opened the city gates.
13. The Greek army attacked and defeated the Trojan army.
14. Achilles died in the battle when the arrow struck his heal. This was the only weak part of his body. Hence when a sports person is injured in his leg we often say he has Achilles heal or foot.
In Greek mythology, The Trojan war was between the Greeks and the people of Troy. The war began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. Menelaus had demanded her back but the Trojan people had no intention to return her in any such way. After this Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon to lead an army against Troy. At Aulis troopships gathered and was led by some Greek heroes. For nine long years the Greeks Ravaged Troy's surrounding cities and countryside, but the city itself well fortified and led by Hector and other sons of the royal household, held out. Eventually, the Greeks built a giant horse in which soldiers were concealed. The other Greeks appeared to sail for home, leaving behind the horse and Sinon who persuaded the Trojans, despite the warnings of Cassandra and Laocoon, to take the horse within the city walls. At night the Greeks returned; Their companions crept out of the horse and opened the city gates, and Troy was destroyed. The gods took good interest in the war. Poseidon, Hera and Athena aided the Greeks while Aphrodite and Ares favoured the Trojans. Zues and Apollo, although very often involved in war remained impartial.
Homer’s The Iliad doesn’t mention the Trojan Horse. In fact, the poem focuses on the rivalry between Achilles and Hector and only covers a total of 51 days from the ten year-long siege. Twenty of its twenty-four Books cover just four days!
. The Horse would have been around 10 feet wide (3 metres). This is based on the width of the widest gate discovered in the ruins of Troy. Based on the fact the Trojans had to knock the upper walls down so the horse could pass into the city, the Horse would have been at least 25 feet (7.6 metres) tall.
.The total weight might have been around 2 tons empty. With just twenty fully armed warriors inside, weighing around 15 stone each, this would have at least doubled the weight. If an ordinary man can pull 200 lbs that would require at least forty men to drag the horse to the walls of Troy. Unless it had wheels, they would have rolled the horse on a carpet of flat wooden beams greased with animal fat.
.Most ancients believed there were thirty to forty warriors hidden inside the horse. The story appears in more detail in Book 2 of The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil: .
A long time ago, there was an ancient city- state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
The Greek warriors had been trying to breach the wall around Troy for about ten years. The Greeks could not find a way in, and the Trojans did not seem able to drive the Greeks away.
That night, while the Trojan people were sleeping, the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. The waiting Greek army entered Troy. That was the end of Troy.
* Almost 3000 years ago there was a terrible war fought by the Trojans and Greeks. * This horrible war started when a beautiful Greek princess named Helen was captured by the Trojans. * The Greeks started to attack the Trojans and recsue the princess but they could not get past the tall strong walls around the city and it seemed like the Greeks were going to lose. * So the Greeks thought if they could not win the battle with there physical strength then they should win it with there brains.They thought of a smart trick. * They started building a wooden horse, the Trojans kept on wondering why the Greeks were building a wooden horse. Some laughed and some were puzzled. * One day they saw the greeks sailing away they got confused.The only thing that remained was a tall strange wooden horse. * Some Trojans wanted to burn the Horse but the king was to proud and told his soldiers to bring it in. * The Trojans began to have parties until they went to sleep. Not all the soldiers had sailed away some were inside the Horse. Quickly and cautiously the Greeks inside pened the gates thats when the rest of the army came in. The Greeks had caught the Trojans off guard and won the battle and saved the princess. *
The Trojan war was one of the most important events in Greek history, it was fought by the Greeks and he Hittites.
The war lasted for ten years and it began when Helen (wife of King Menelaus of Sparta) was kidnapped or people say she ran away with him. King Menelaus sent some ships to get his wife back.
A long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they rained arrows down on the people below, who were trying to break into the city.
.The Trojan War was probably the first war that was properly recorded.
. The Trojan War is one of the most important events in the ancient Middle-Earth that has influenced countless people through the centuries.
. The Trojan War, fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age, has grabbed the imagination for millennia.
.The Trojan army defending the great city of Troy, led by their king Priam, had assistance from a long list of allies.
.The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city
.Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy.
*The Trojan war started when, the beautiful princess of Greece: Helener was captured by the Trojans.
*This resulted in the Greeks starting a 10 year war in order the rescue the princess in vain.
*After realising defeat, the king of Greece gathered a fleet of 100 ships and sailed to Troy.
*Stopping a couple of hundred miles off the edge of Troy the Greeks assembled a wooden model of a horse the average height of 10 men, equipped with men inside.
* The Greeks set the horse afloat on the water and waited for the next stage of their plan to commence.
*Thankfully, the Trojans bought in the horse accepting that it was a gift from Poseidon the god of the sea intending to leave it in the temple of Poseidon as a thank you for the gift.
*That night, the men in the horse assembled themselves and departured the horse heading for the gates of Troy.
*After opening the gates and letting their comrades in they saluted the village, got back the princess and therefore won the war.
Trojan war
ReplyDeleteThere was a saying in old Greece- Be aware of Greeks bearing gifts. The saying comes from a legend Trojan horse.
A long long time ago there was a city-state on the coast of turkey, across the sea from Sparta. The city-state was called Troy. At the time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were very nice friends but that all changed.Troy had a 20ft wall around the city to protect it so it made it very easy for the guards to stay put.
Odysseus, a Greek general had a idea! His idea was to build a beautiful, magnificent wooden horse and they would leave it outside the gates of Troy. The people in Troy will thing they gave up but inside would be 30 men hiding inside. That's what they did.
While the Greek warriors sailed to Troy, all the people from Troy gathered outside cheering. They didn't burn it they kept it on display. That's what the Greek General thought they would do. Then while they were sleeping the Greek warriors snuck silently into the city and that begone the Trojan war.
A long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
ReplyDeleteThe city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they rained arrows down on the people below, who were trying to break into the city.
The Greek warriors had been trying to breach the wall around Troy for about ten years. The Greeks could not find a way in, and the Trojans did not seem able to drive the Greeks away.
Odysseus, a Greek general, had an idea. His plan was to build a horse, a beautiful and huge wooden horse, and leave it outside the gate. Then, the entire Greek army would pretend to leave, as if they had finally admitted defeat. But the horse would be hollow. Thirty men would be hiding inside. That's what they did.
As the Greek warriors sailed away, the people of Troy rushed outside, cheering. They found the horse. Fortunately, they did not try to burn the horse. They dragged the horse inside the city gates to keep it on display, which is just what the Greek general thought they would do - gloat.
That night, while the Trojan people were sleeping, the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. The waiting Greek army entered Troy. That was the end of Troy.
5 Interesting fact on Trojan war.
ReplyDelete*The war is said to have started when queen Helen ran away (or was captured by) a trojan prince
* To defeat troy Greek soldiers made a wooden horse to get into the city walls.
*Battle formation Phalanx is when the soldiers would pack tightly with their shield protecting them self and the person next to you.
*Weaponry- shield(aspis), spear(doru), sword(xiphos).
*In battle they had practically no strategy because after dark they went back to camp till morning.
Trojan horse
ReplyDelete1.10 year the Greeks constructed a wooden horse and hid a select of forse men inside.
2. The Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy.
1.The trojan war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology.
2.The Greeks enterd and distroyed the city of troy.
3. And then decievly ending the war.
The Trojan War began when Paris, Prince of Troy, ran away with Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. The Greeks sent a fleet of ships, with an army, to get her back. The war lasted for 10 years. In single combat, the greatest Greek warrior, Achilles, killed the Trojan leader Hector. In the end the Greeks won, by a clever trick using a wooden horse.The Trojans lived in the city of Troy, in what is now Turkey. The story of their war with the Greeks is told in the Iliad, a long poem dating from the 700s BC, and said to be by a storyteller named Homer. The Odyssey, also by Homer, is the tale of the adventures of a Greek soldier named Odysseus, after the war.
ReplyDeleteAman I liked how you recorded the dates of the years when this happened.
DeleteTROJAN WAR – KEY FACTS
ReplyDelete1. The Trojan War was fought between the Greeks (Mycenaeans) and the defenders of the city of Troy (Hittites) in Anatolia (now part of Turkey)
2. The war took place at the end of the Bronze Age about 3000 years ago
3. We know about the Trojan War from the epic stories written by the famous Greek writer and poet Homer
4. The Trojan War started when the Trojan prince Paris eloped or abducted with Helen the wife of Menelaus whose brother was the Spartan King Agamemnon
5. King Agamemnon brought together the armies of various Greek cities such as Athens, Argos, Corinth, Crete and Rhodes. Greeks sailed across the Aegean Sea to battle with Trojan Army. It is said that Helen was “the face that launched a thousand ships”.
6. Amongst the Greeks there were some extra special heroes who displayed great courage on the battlefield; the most important being Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax and Diomedes.
7. Trojan army was led by King Priam and was supported by a long list of allies such as Carians, Halizones, Kaukones, Mysians and others.
8. Trojan also had their heroes that included Hektor (son of Priam), Aeneas, Sarpedon, Glaukos, and others.
9. The Trojan War was in fact a protracted siege of the city of Troy that lasted for several months. The Greek army could not break through the magnificent fortification.
10. In the end the Greeks came up with a plan to trick the king of Troy. At night the Greek army built a huge wooden horse that housed 30 to 40 soldiers. Then they got in their ships and sailed away.
11. The people of Troy brought the wooden horse back to their city believing that it was a gift from the Greeks and started celebrating their victory.
12. The next night the Greek army sailed back and waited outside the gates to the city. Whilst everyone in Troy was fast asleep the Greek soldiers climbed down from the wooden horse using ropes and opened the city gates.
13. The Greek army attacked and defeated the Trojan army.
14. Achilles died in the battle when the arrow struck his heal. This was the only weak part of his body. Hence when a sports person is injured in his leg we often say he has Achilles heal or foot.
THE TROJAN WAR
ReplyDeleteIn Greek mythology, The Trojan war was between the Greeks and the people of Troy. The war began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. Menelaus had demanded her back but the Trojan people had no intention to return her in any such way. After this Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon to lead an army against Troy. At Aulis troopships gathered and was led by some Greek heroes. For nine long years the Greeks Ravaged Troy's surrounding cities and countryside, but the city itself well fortified and led by Hector and other sons of the royal household, held out. Eventually, the Greeks built a giant horse in which soldiers were concealed. The other Greeks appeared to sail for home, leaving behind the horse and Sinon who persuaded the Trojans, despite the warnings of Cassandra and Laocoon, to take the horse within the city walls. At night the Greeks returned; Their companions crept out of the horse and opened the city gates, and Troy was destroyed. The gods took good interest in the war. Poseidon, Hera and Athena aided the Greeks while Aphrodite and Ares favoured the Trojans. Zues and Apollo, although very often involved in war remained impartial.
Homer’s The Iliad doesn’t mention the Trojan Horse. In fact, the poem focuses on the rivalry between Achilles and Hector and only covers a total of 51 days from the ten year-long siege. Twenty of its twenty-four Books cover just four days!
ReplyDelete. The Horse would have been around 10 feet wide (3 metres). This is based on the width of the widest gate discovered in the ruins of Troy.
Based on the fact the Trojans had to knock the upper walls down so the horse could pass into the city, the Horse would have been at least 25 feet (7.6 metres) tall.
.The total weight might have been around 2 tons empty. With just twenty fully armed warriors inside, weighing around 15 stone each, this would have at least doubled the weight.
If an ordinary man can pull 200 lbs that would require at least forty men to drag the horse to the walls of Troy. Unless it had wheels, they would have rolled the horse on a carpet of flat wooden beams greased with animal fat.
.Most ancients believed there were thirty to forty warriors hidden inside the horse. The story appears in more detail in Book 2 of The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil:
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Trojan War legends
ReplyDeleteA long time ago, there was an ancient city-
state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
The Greek warriors had been trying to breach the wall around Troy for about ten years. The Greeks could not find a way in, and the Trojans did not seem able to drive the Greeks away.
That night, while the Trojan people were sleeping, the men hiding inside the wooden horse climbed out and opened the gates. The waiting Greek army entered Troy. That was the end of Troy.
The Trojan war.
ReplyDelete* Almost 3000 years ago there was a terrible war fought by the Trojans and Greeks.
* This horrible war started when a beautiful Greek princess named Helen was captured by the Trojans.
* The Greeks started to attack the Trojans and recsue the princess but they could not get past the tall strong walls around the city and it seemed like the Greeks were going to lose.
* So the Greeks thought if they could not win the battle with there physical strength then they should win it with there brains.They thought of a smart trick.
* They started building a wooden horse, the Trojans kept on wondering why the Greeks were building a wooden horse. Some laughed and some were puzzled.
* One day they saw the greeks sailing away they got confused.The only thing that remained was a tall strange wooden horse.
* Some Trojans wanted to burn the Horse but the king was to proud and told his soldiers to bring it in.
* The Trojans began to have parties until they went to sleep. Not all the soldiers had sailed away some were inside the Horse. Quickly and cautiously the Greeks inside pened the gates thats when the rest of the army came in. The Greeks had caught the Trojans off guard and won the battle and saved the princess.
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Trojan war-10 faces:
ReplyDelete1.It happened hundreds years ago.
2.Greek and Troy were at war.
3.The war took place at the end of the Bronze Age about 3000 years ago.
4.The Trojan pulled the horse into their city as a Victory trophy.
5.The Greeks enterd and distroyed the city of Troy.
6.The Greek army attacked and defeated the Trojan army.
7.The people of Troy brought the wooden horse back to their city believing that it was a gift from the Greeks and started celebrting their Victory.
The Trojan war
ReplyDeleteThe Trojan war was one of the most important events in Greek history, it was fought by the Greeks and he Hittites.
The war lasted for ten years and it began when Helen (wife of King Menelaus of Sparta) was kidnapped or people say she ran away with him. King Menelaus sent some ships to get his wife back.
A long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed.
ReplyDeleteThe city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they rained arrows down on the people below, who were trying to break into the city.
The Trojan War
ReplyDelete.The Trojan War was probably the first war that was properly recorded.
. The Trojan War is one of the most important events in the ancient Middle-Earth that has influenced countless people through the centuries.
. The Trojan War, fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age, has grabbed the imagination for millennia.
.The Trojan army defending the great city of Troy, led by their king Priam, had assistance from a long list of allies.
.The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city
.Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy.
.
THE TROJAN WAR
ReplyDelete*The Trojan war started when, the beautiful princess of Greece: Helener was captured by the Trojans.
*This resulted in the Greeks starting a 10 year war in order the rescue the princess in vain.
*After realising defeat, the king of Greece gathered a fleet of 100 ships and sailed to Troy.
*Stopping a couple of hundred miles off the edge of Troy the Greeks assembled a wooden model of a horse the average height of 10 men, equipped with men inside.
* The Greeks set the horse afloat on the water and waited for the next stage of their plan to commence.
*Thankfully, the Trojans bought in the horse accepting that it was a gift from Poseidon the god of the sea intending to leave it in the temple of Poseidon as a thank you for the gift.
*That night, the men in the horse assembled themselves and departured the horse heading for the gates of Troy.
*After opening the gates and letting their comrades in they saluted the village, got back the princess and therefore won the war.
The Trojan War only started when the Princess was captured/Helener by the Troys.
ReplyDeletethen they made a wooden horse and men went and was in the giant hores.
the Troys had found it and one of the men said''lets burn it''but the other men said''no we take it back to are palice''.
So then they had a party with the giant hores.
so when it was night time,every single greece came out and killed and defeted the Troys
And then they took the princess/Helener home in peace.