trojan war in English

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the legendary ten-year siege of Troy by a coalition of Greeks, described in Homer's Iliad.

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1. During the Trojan War, Apollo attacked the Greeks with the plague

2. Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Greeks during the Trojan War

3. Achilles was a Greek hero, most famous for his part in the Trojan War

4. Agamemnon definition is - a king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War.

5. With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

6. Peleus later gave the horses to his son Achilles who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War.

7. Andromache in The Iliad The Iliad is an ancient Greek poem that tells the story of the Trojan War

8. Ajax definition is - a Greek hero in the Trojan War who kills himself because the armor of Achilles is awarded to Odysseus.

9. Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was the greatest of all Greek heroes who took part in the Trojan War.

10. The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan War.

11. 25 The vase painting shows Ajax and Achilles getting ready for their equivalent of k2 paddling during a lull in the Trojan War.

12. The Greek hero Achilles is one of the most famous figures in Greek myth and a key character in the Trojan War

13. ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ACHILLES WAS THE BRAVEST OF the Greek warriors in the Trojan War, a campaign against the city of Troy.

14. 23 The hero of the Trojan War, the son of Peleus and Thetis and slayer of Hector who was killed by Apollo at last.

15. Achilleus (Greek Ἀχιλλεύς transliterated Akhilleus Roman: Achilles, Etruscan; Achle or Achile) was a hero of the Greeks (Achaeans) in the legends of the Trojan War, i.e

16. Agamemnon is a Greek leader from Homer’s The Iliad during the Trojan War while Oedipus is the King of Thebes in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King.

17. Andromache would appear in, and after, the Trojan War, and although a Trojan by marriage, was highly regarded as the epitome of womanhood by the Greeks

18. 1 History 1.1 Early years 1.2 Trojan War 2 Links and References 2.1 Discover and Discuss 2.2 Footnotes Aegisthus murdered Atreus, king of Mycenae, and supplanted him as king

19. Meanings for Aeneid an epic in Latin by Virgil that tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire.

20. Ajax definition, a Greek hero in the Trojan War who rescued the body of Achilles and killed himself out of jealousy when Odysseus was awarded the armor of Achilles

21. When the Trojan prince Paris carried off Helen, wife of his brother Menelaus, Agamemnon called for revenge and led the Greek forces to victory during the Trojan War

22. Amphius and Adrastus lead units from Adresteia, Apaesus, Mount Tereia, and Pityeia, to the Trojan War on the side of Troy, and fight alongside the Percote contingent which is commanded by the Hyrtacidae

23. In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam, the ruler of Troy during the Trojan War, and his wife, Queen Hecuba.This made her a princess of the highest rank

24. Achilles was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War. According to Homer, Achilles was brought up by his mother at Phthia with his inseparable companion Patroclus.

25. The Argonauts, in Greek mythology, are the 50 heroes, led by Jason, who sailed on a ship called the Argo on a quest to bring back the Golden Fleece around 1300 B.C., before the Trojan War

26. Aeneas was a member of the royal line at Troy and cousin of Hector. He played a prominent part in defending his city against the Greeks during the Trojan War, being second only to Hector in ability.

27. The Trojan War is the legendary (and almost certainly mythical) conflict in which Agamemnon laid siege to Troy in an effort to retrieve Helen, his sister-in-law after she had been taken to Troy by Paris

28. For instance, the generic name for yarrow is Achillea, after the legendary Greek hero Achilles, who is said to have used the foliage to stanch the flow of blood from wounded fellow soldiers during the Trojan War.

29. Atreus Atreus was a king of Mycenae in Greek mythology, son of Pelops and Hippodamia. He was married to Aerope and fathered a girl, Anaxibia, and two boys, Agamemnon and Menelaus, two of the protagonists of the Trojan War

30. Here, the maiden falls in love with Achilles, and accepts to be sacrificed on the pyre as a means to ensure both her lover's happiness (as predicted by an oracle) and her father Agamemnon's victory in the Trojan War.

31. The Trojan War cycle, a collection of epic poems, starts with the events leading up to the war: Eris and the golden apple of Kallisti, the Judgement of Paris, the abduction of Helen, the sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis.

32. Aeneas is a future king of Troy, a young man destined for greatness, and a warrior who, in the time of the Trojan War that is covered in The Iliad, isn't quite as good as the Greek warriors that

33. Andromache (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides.It dramatises Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione.The date of its first performance is unknown

34. Ajax is known for his size and strength, so much so that the tag line of a popular cleaning product was "Ajax: Stronger than dirt." There were actually two Greek heroes in the Trojan War named Ajax

35. Olympus (or Olympos, Greek: Ὄλυμπος) is the name of two ancient Greek musicians, one mythical who lived before the Trojan War, and one apparently real, who lived in the 7th century BC.Both musicians were connected with the Auletic music, which had its origin in Phrygia

36. Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad.He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonging the war and suffering of his men

37. Achilles is the quintessentially heroic subject of Homer's great poem of adventure and war, the Iliad. Achilles was the greatest of the warriors famed for his swiftness on the Greek (Achaean) side during the Trojan War, directly competing with Troy's warrior hero Hector.

38. “Andromache” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first produced some time between about 428 and 424 BCE.It dramatizes the plight of Andromache, wife of the dead Trojan hero Hector, during her life in the years after the end of the Trojan War

39. HOMER Ὅμηρος m English, Ancient Greek (Anglicized) From the Greek name Ὅμηρος (Homeros), derived from ὅμηρος (homeros) meaning "hostage, pledge".Homer was the Greek epic poet who wrote the Iliad, about the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, about Odysseus's journey home after the war

40. Aegisthus is Clytemnestra ’s second husband and the king of Mycenae in Electra.After Agamemnon sacrificed his and Clytemnestra’s daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis, Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon as revenge on Clytemnestra’s behalf.Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were already having an affair while Agamemnon was away fighting the Trojan War, and Electra implies that Clytemnestra and

41. Aegisthus CHORUS OF WOMEN OF MYCENAE MUTE PERSONS PYLADES, son of Strophius, King of Phocis, and friend of Orestes A HANDMAID OF CLYTEMNESTRA TWO ATTENDANTS OF ORESTES: As background to the play, King Agamemnon of Mycenae (or Argos in some versions of the myth) had returned from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra.

42. Achaean of or relating to Achaea in ancient Greece; (especially in Homeric contexts) Greek.The Achaeans were among the earliest Greek-speaking inhabitants of Greece, being established there well before the 12th century bc.Some scholars identify them with the Mycenaeans of the 14th–13th centuries bc.The Greek protagonists in the Trojan War are regularly called Achaeans in the Iliad, though

43. Bella, mulier qui hominum Allicit et accipit eos per fortis: war, a woman who lures men and takes them by force: Latin proverb [citation needed] bella gerant alii Protesilaus amet! let others wage war Protesilaus should love! Originally from Ovid, Heroides 13.84, where Laodamia is writing to her husband Protesilaus who is at the Trojan War.

44. In Greek mythology the name Aeolus pops up in reference to three different characters: Aeolus, the son of Hippotes, and keeper of the winds; Aeolus, the half-human son of Poseidon; and Aeolus, the son of Hellen (not the Helen of the Trojan War, but a mortal ruler who is the legendary ancestor of the “Hellenic” people) and a nymph Orseis, who’s wife gave birth to a daughter, Arnes, who is