Who was the Trojan hero of the Trojan War, and how did he die?
142570
Hector was the son of the king and the Trojan hero?  But he wasn't really because he choose protecting his dishonorable cowardly brother over the safety of the people of Troy.  He was killed in single combat outside the walls of troy by achellies (sp)
986086
No, he doesn't. I'm pretty sure he dies in the beginning of the Odyssey, or else his death is told of there. Paris did shoot him through the heel, but it is sometimes thought that the arrow was guided by Apollo. Achilles death isn't really a huge concern in the Iliad. The main theme is the choice he makes to obtain glory, and pay the price of death, and his coming to terms with the death of Patroklos, and his compassionate treatment of Priam.
1053166
It is impossible to know how it differred from reality, because there is no objective evidence of the war at Troy, other than an obvious event at Troy VII where the city was razed to the ground. How it differs from the books it was (loosely) based on, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it would take far too much time and space to list all of them here. For one, Menelaus does not die and takes Helen back to Sparta with him. You should read both of the books to find out the rest.
256507
You spelled the name wrong.\n\nIn Greek mythology, Enceladus was one of the Gigantes, children of Gaia (Earth), who were defeated in battle by Zeus's thunderbolts. Athena cast a spear that knocked Enceladus flat: he became the island of Sicily. In Euripides' Cyclops Silenus claims to have dealt the deathblow, perhaps a vain drunken boast, for he also claims to have sent the Gigantes flying with the braying of his ass.\n\nBuried under Mount Etna by Athena, the volcanic fires were supposed to be the breath of Enceladus, and its eruptions were caused by his rolling his injured side inside the mountain. Thus he fulfills a role similar to that of Typhon. In Greece an earthquake is still sometimes called a "strike of Enceladus".\n\nA moon of Saturn was named after Enceladus, after a suggestion by Herschel's son John Herschel in Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope, 1847.\n\nSource: web sites
383291
The journey of the hero Odysseus from the battle of Troy back to his house when the battle ends (this is where the story starts).  He displeases the god Poseiden by killing the cyclops (which is posieden's favorite son) so Poseiden won't let Odysseus get home.  He finally does after lots of years and he comes home to find suitors trying to claim his wife Penelope.  With the help of his son and his maid, he kills all the suitors and they live happily ever after.
264339
Achilles & Ulysses... (check spellings)
489513
Yes, it's incredibly difficult to read & I didn't enjoy it. Admittedly, I used Cliff Notes to help me.\n\nBook summaries\nBook 1: Ten years into the war, Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over a slave girl, Achilles withdraws from the war in anger \nBook 2: Odysseus motivates the Greeks to keep fighting; Catalogue of Ships, Catalogue of Trojans and Allies \nBook 3: Paris challenges Menelaus to single combat \nBook 4: The truce is broken and battle begins \nBook 5: Diomedes has an aristea and wounds Aphrodite and Ares \nBook 6: Glaucus and Diomedes greet during a truce, Hector returns to Troy \nBook 7: Hector battles Ajax \nBook 8: The gods withdraw from the battle \nBook 9: Agamemnon retreats: his overtures to Achilles are spurned \nBook 10: Diomedes and Odysseus go on a spy mission \nBook 11: Paris wounds Diomedes, and Achilles sends Patroclus on a mission \nBook 12: The Greeks retreat to their camp and are besieged by the Trojans \nBook 13: Poseidon motivates the Greeks \nBook 14: Hera helps Poseidon assist the Greeks \nBook 15: Zeus stops Poseidon from interfering \nBook 16: Patroclus borrows Achilles' armour, enters battle, kills Sarpedon and then is killed by Hector \nBook 17: The armies fight over the body and armour of Patroclus \nBook 18: Achilles learns of the death of Patroclus and receives a new suit of armour \nBook 19: Achilles reconciles with Agamemnon and enters battle \nBook 20: The gods join the battle; Achilles tries to kill Aeneas \nBook 21: Achilles fights with the river Scamander and encounters Hector in front of the Trojan gates \nBook 22: Achilles kills Hector and drags his body back to the Greek camp \nBook 23: Funeral games for Patroclus \nBook 24: Achilles lets Priam have Hector's body back, and he is burned on a pyre \n[edit]\nAfter the Iliad: the end of the war and the returns home\nAlthough certain events subsequent to the funeral of Hector are foreshadowed in the Iliad, and there is a general sense that the Trojans are doomed, a detailed account of the fall of Troy is not set out by Homer. The following account comes from later Greek and Roman poetry and drama.\n\nAchilles fights and kills the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Aethiopean king Memnon. Very soon he is killed on the battlefield by Paris with a poisoned arrow to his vulnerable heel. (See Achilles' Heel). After his death, Ajax and Odysseus feud over who should keep his armour. They submit their disagreement to an impromptu court and Odysseus is awarded the armour. Ajax subsequently goes mad and slaughters his livestock, believing they are the Greek commanders. He then kills himself in shame.\n\nThe Amazons come to join the battle. Philoctetes, a crippled Greek who had been abandoned by the others along the journey, was recruited by the god Heracles because it was prophesied the war could not be won without his bow.\n\nOdysseus devises a plan to take the city. He has his men build a large, hollow wooden horse, and then he and twenty others hide inside. The Greek ships withdraw out of sight of Troy, apparently admitting defeat, and leave behind the horse, purportedly as an offering to Poseidon for good winds on the return trip. The Trojans take this inside the great walls of Troy, and then feast and celebrate their victory and the war's end. At night, Odysseus and the soldiers creep out of the horse and open the gates to the other Greeks who have sailed back under cover of night. The city is sacked, and in some accounts burned for seven years.\n\nPriam is killed. According to one tradition, Hector's wife Andromache throws their son Astyanax and herself from the ramparts to save them from slavery. According to another, Astyanax was killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, to ensure that Hector's son could not seek vengeance for his father's death against Achilles' son. Andromache became Neoptolemus' concubine, later to marry Helenus, Hector's brother. A Roman tradition held that Aeneas escaped wi
943324
that would DEFINATLY  be Robert Fitzgerald, hes the best i think. i loved loved both the iliad and the odyssey by him, they're not like college this and this happened at all, almost fiction BUT ITS NOT. translations of homer's and hes awsome too. id really reccomend them. FITZGERALD ROCKS MY SOCKS!
494096
I clicked on the link, but I saw that you had already been helped!\n\nPerhaps Odesseus/Ulysses was a comic hero?  I mean, come on!  A big wooden horse to defeat the Trojans?  Somehow I think this was a play on Trojan ego...  Was the giant wooden horse compensating for something?  Sorry.  I love double meanings...
89596
Pericles was a statesman of ancient Greece, who tried to unite the country under the leadership of his own city, Athens. Pericles also promoted democracy within Athens. His rule is sometimes known as the Golden Age of Greece. Many magnificent buildings, including the Parthenon, were built under his administration. He led the Athenians at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War but died soon afterward.
885033
1. Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns\ndriven time and again off course, once he had plundered\nthe hallowed heights of Troy.\nMany cities of men he saw and learned their minds,\nmany pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,\nfighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.\nBut he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove—\nthe recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,\nthe blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun\nand the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.\nLaunch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus,\nstart from where you will—sing for our time too.\n\n\nmeaning:With these words the Odyssey begins. The poet asks for inspiration from the Muse and imagines her singing through him. An ancient epic poem states at the outset, in capsule form, the subject of the work to follow, and this epic is no exception. The Odyssey announces its subject matter in a different fashion from the Iliad. Whereas Homer’s first epic treats Achilles’ rage, this one focuses on a “man of twists and turns.” It chronicles not battles, the stuff of Achilles’ brief life, but a long journey through “[m]any cities” and “many pains,” the kind of test worthy of a resourceful hero like Odysseus. The opening lines foreshadow how the epic will end—with all of Odysseus’s men dead except Odysseus himself—and provide a reason for these deaths: the recklessness and blindness of his crew , who do not realize that by slaughtering the Sun’s cattle they seal their own dooms. The opening leaves unmentioned many other temptations the Achaeans will face and says nothing of the situation in Ithaca, which consumes nearly half the epic. It treats the subject matter of the epic in an abbreviated form but captures the themes those subjects will explore. As Knox notes in the introduction to the Fagles translation, in the Odyssey, in contrast to the Iliad, the Muse is asked to choose where to begin. Giving the Muse this freedom prepares us for the more complex narrative structure of the Odyssey, which relies on flashbacks as it moves through the many settings of the hero’s ten-year journey.\n\n\n2.Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,\nour mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.\nSo long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,\nhe thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.\nBut then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,\nbear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.\nOur lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,\nturn as the days turn . . .\n\nmeaning-Odysseus utters these words to the suitor Amphinomus shortly after defeating the “Beggar-King” Irus in Book 18 (18.150–157). Odysseus is himself in disguise as beggar, and his words here help maintain that cover. According to the story he has told, he once was a great warrior, plundering faraway lands, until one day he was captured. On one level, his words here reinforce those lies. The fatalism and helplessness he expresses—that a man only prospers while “the gods grant him power”—were frequently expressed sentiments of the Ancient Greek outlook, but they seem especially natural coming from a onetime king who has descended to the status of a beggar. Who better to comment on life’s reversals than someone who has experienced them firsthand?\nThe words have additional meaning, however, for both Amphinomus and Odysseus. For Amphinomus, they foreshadow death. He is plundering the land of others, living a careless life, much as the beggar once did, but he too is a feeble man, and he is destined for a fall. The words are a prophecy to Amphinomus, and a warning; he does not miss their meaning, as he walks away “fraught with grave forebodings” (18.176). For Odysseus, on the other hand, the words do not foretell the future but recount the past and, perhaps, explain the lesson it has taught him. At the hour of his greatest triumph, the beginn
68711
The ancient city of Troy was located in what today is called Turkey, along the western coastline, across the Aegean Sea from Greece. This area is also called Asia Minor.\nThey weren't Greeks, but other than Trojans, I'm not sure what they called themselves or were called by others.
767468
The account by Darius is probably more accurate:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambyses_II_of_Persia#The_death_of_Cambyses
416841
Atlas: Titan; held world on his shoulders as punishment for warring against Zeus; son of Iapetus.
644498
This is actually a direct reference to the Trojan Horse being used at the tail end of the Trojan Wars.  The horse was of a different color (method of thinking) than the besiegers, so it was considered a novel idea and trustworthy.
360961
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds is called an epic poem. I haven't read anything by Virgil, but Homer certainly does that, so he'd be the writer of an epic poem.\n\nI'm not sure if that makes him an epic poet, though..
1058059
You're on to something here. I'm starting to think that the Trojan war was over oil, too. How else could they get that big Horse into Troy?