The time period of war was the age of Homer, a great writer who wrote the Iliad, the story of the war, but he wasn’t part of the battle. It was the age when they made lots of bronze things, especially armor. Warriors had a variety of armor made of bronze, wood, metals, etc. Their weapons were mostly swords and spears. However, it was the involvement of the gods that made this war so different and important to history. It still hasn’t been proven whether the war really happened or not.

The conflict started when Paris went to Sparta to make a peace treaty and saw Helen and took her back to Troy with him. Helen, though was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. She had many suitors and her father made them all take an oath that they would protect whomever she chose for a husband if ever he was in trouble. She chose Menelaus. So when Paris took Helen, it was time for the other suitors to help Menelaus.

Menelaus and the Greeks took two years to build the ships and the

The war lasted ten years, the first nine years were indecisive. Homer used the Trojan War as the basis for the Iliad . The heroes of the Trojan War were Hector and Aeneas ,his brother. Hector was a great warrior and was always in front leading and urging his men on. The Greeks were the ones who wanted to fight because they knew they were stronger and because of Paris. Their greatest warrior was Achilles. It was Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus who took command of the expedition to save Helen. Odysseus, the smartest of the Greeks, didn’t want to go to war to save Helen. He even pretended he was crazy. However, his madness was proven false. When he was tilling the fields the Greeks placed his baby son in front of the plow to test him and see if he would avoid hitting his son. He did turn the plow. This proved he was sane, so he had to go join the Greeks in the battle to save Helen.

When Achilles heard about his dear friend, Patroclus’ death, and the fight for his body he felt despair and anger. Thetis, Achilles mother, after hearing her son’s cry, had the “divine smith” make him a whole new set of armor. Achilles wanted revenge and Agamemnon willingly gave him command of the whole army. Achilles’ only desire was to kill Hector. In his anger he killed many warriors. Including Hector’s brother. Hector who was now wearing Achilles’ armor wanted to kill Achilles and threw his spear at him but Athena protected him by turning it aside. Meanwhile Apollo protected Hector with a dense mist. Even the gods started to fight each other.

Finally, Achilles and Hector fought it out. Athena, would keep returning Achilles’ spear because he knew his own armor and its weak spots, he struck Hector in the neck killing him. Then Achilles dragged Hector’s body around Troy. But the war was not over. Achilles

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