Can someone tell me the whole greek story of troy and oddesseus?
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um... it's kind of a long story... so why don't you see the movie Troy and read the Illiad and the oddessy? or look up an abridged version...
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... Because Odysseus swore an oath that has something to do with Helen of Troy.\n\nOdysseus was one of the suitors for Helen, daughter of Tyndareus. But when Tyndareus, afraid of offending the many famous and powerful suitors, would not choose among them, Odysseus promised to solve the dilemma, in return for Tyndareus' support for Odysseus suit for Penelope, daughter of Icarius. Odysseus proposed that Tyndareus require all the suitors to swear an oath to defend whomever Helen chose as husband from among the oath-takers. The suitors, including Odysseus, swore and Helen chose Menelaus, the most powerful of them.\n\nWhen Helen was abducted by Paris of Troy (which caused the Trojan War), the suitors were called upon to honor their oaths and help Menelaus retrieve Helen. Because an oracle had prophesied he would not return for a long time, Odysseus didn't want to go to war; he pretended to be insane, ploughing his fields and sowing salt instead of seeds. Agamemnon, Menelaus' brother, sent Palamedes to convince Odysseus to join the expedition. Palamedes was very intelligent, and placed Telemachus, Odysseus' infant son, in front of the plough. Odysseus could not kill his son, thus revealing his sanity, and then left for the Trojan War.
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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
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This is an easy one. The answers are all within the first 10 pages of The Odyssey. Read it closely and ask yourself these questions:\n\n"What does this story tell me about how this society functioned?"\n\n"How did they communicate and pass down their history?"\n\n"What are some examples of things that were important to believe in during this time and in this society?"\n\nIt's a great story and you can learn much from it. I hope you get something from my answer, but you have to do your homework on your own.
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menelaus was the husband of Helen of Troy, the one she ran away from.  he was the king of sparta
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hmmm...i think the guy up there said everything from wikipedia...but i read the hole story myself a few years ago.king minos(son of zeus and europe),for proving his the son of zeus(and to become king of crete),prayed to poseidon,his uncle,to make a bull get born from the sea,promising that he'll sacrifice the bull to poseidon.but when minos saw the beautiful white bull,he put it in his herd.poseidon,angry,punished minos by giving him a son,with human body and bull head.becuz the minotaur,when he grew up,was eating every servent in the palace,minos ordred to the architect daedalus to make a castle from where nobody cud get out.daedalus invented the labirinth,and the minotaur was locked in.theseus,son of poseidon and etra(that was married with egeus while she had relations with poseidon)came to athens to see his step father,but he finds out that it was the time of the year when the athenian had to pay to king minos 7 girls and 7 boys to be given as food to the minotaur.theseus went too,wanting to kill the monster.but arriving to crete,the daughter of minos,ariadna,got in love with theseus and helped him by giving him a ball of wool and a dagger.theseus killed the minotaur,and folowing the thread they got out of the labirinth.they went back to athens,but king egeus seeing the black sails he thought theseus was death and threw himself in the sea to die.from then the sea got the name of egeum sea from his name.
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Double post...\n\nOrestes, in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile. Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers, Orestes was commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime. With the assistance of Electra and his friend Pylades, who accompanied him in all his adventures, he killed his mother and her lover. After this matricide he was haunted by the Furies (Erinyes) until he reached Athens. He was tried and acquitted by the Areopagus, the tribunal of Athenian judges. Not all the Furies, however, accepted the verdict; and, to win full expiation from his crime, he was told to steal the sacred image of Artemis from Tauris. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned to Greece. It is said that he later married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatized his vengeance and expiation. The story was also used by Sophocles and Euripides.
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Try these:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/\n\nhttp://www.greekmythology.com/\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\n\nhttp://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/
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The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid.\n\nThe Greek siege of Troy had lasted for ten years. The Greeks devised a new ruse: a giant hollow wooden horse. It was built by Epeius and filled with Greek warriors led by Odysseus. The rest of the Greek army appeared to leave, but actually hid behind Tenedos. Meanwhile, a Greek spy, Sinon, convinced the Trojans the horse was a gift despite the warnings of Laocoon and Cassandra; Helen and Deiphobus even investigated the horse; in the end, the Trojans accepted the gift. It should be noted here that the horse was the sacred animal of Poseidon —during the contest with Athena over the patronship of Athens, Poseidon gave men the horse, whilst Athena gave the olive tree.\n\n-----------------------------------\nViruses that sit in your computer and wait for the right time to attack are called trojan virus.
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which Pericles are you talking about? The play by Shakespeare or Pericles (ca. 495 BC-429 BC, Greek : Περικλῆς) was an influential and important leader of Athens?\n\nhere's the link to the info anyway.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles%2C_Prince_of_Tyre\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles
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I hope these sites help you\n\nhttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm\n\nhttp://www.temple.edu/classics/oedipus.html
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This should tell you everything you need to know:\n\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0197622.html  (this is a full list~too many to list here)\n\nhttp://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/sullivan/sullms/gods.htm\nhttp://www.greekmythology.com/\n\nThere is so much~you will have to narrow it down to suit your specific needs.  Good luck~
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It was Athena.  Odyseus had a temple to Athena in his homeland, and he had prayed to her at the beginning and end of his voyage to Troy to fight in the Trojan War.  I believe Athena was his patron goddess.
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The Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles. The three plays are Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus of Colonus.\n\nThese are by far the most famous Greek plays. and no wonder; it's plot and themes behind it are so complex and emotional.\n\nOther plays include "Achilles" by Aeschylus and "Orya" by Epicharmus
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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.
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please do not keep in mind the war of troy movie!believe me there are a lot of things wrong there and i can be sure of that as i am greek.Achilleas was son of the nymphe Thetis.he was imortal but with one mortal point on his body,his heal!wen he was a baby thetis hold him from his heal over the fire of imortality so that is why his heal was the only point that if he was injured he could die and that was the reason of his death.his war equipments was a gift from god ifestus the god of fire.
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Apollo was the twin brother of Artemis. He's the son of Zeus. He's the god of sun, light, clarity, and truth. He's important in greek myths due to the myth of "Apollo and Daphne", where he chased a young beautiful water nymph because he got struck by "cupid's arrow", a gold tipped one that cause lust, desire, and love. Daphne was struck by a lead tipped arrow which cause disgust and repulsion. He chased Daphne across the Earth until she became tired and so came to Mother Earth who turned Daphne into a laurel tree, leaving Apollo heartbroken and despaired. Hmm...how sad isn't it?