The Battle of Troy
The Trojan War has always been a fascination of mine. Joining the military at a young age of 18, I never really cared much about history. This really set me back in my military career as the military is extremely history driven. Not many know it, but the military is dedicated to the past, present and future and learning from it. Units are named off of past conflicts and heroes such as Spartans or Trojans. There is even a website out there for lessons learned so we can grow from. Digging into a topic for a research project, the easiest choice for me was Troy. The movie sparked an extreme interest in learning more about this topic and the heroes of this time. An interesting question that we will get into is this. …show more content…
The problem with this material is that Homer was a poet, not a historian. Facts how that the Troy that Homer described did indeed exist, but the descriptions of the Battle of Troy may have been a myth and exaggerated. Let 's take a look at the battle. The Battle of Troy occurred when a prince named Paris of Troy abducted a Queen of Sparta named Helen. Helen was the wife of Menelaus which was obviously angered at this and declared war on Troy. King Menelaus sends Agamemnon and Odysseus as ambassadors in an attempt to request the return of Queen Helen. Agamemnon and Odysseys were sent to Troy with over a thousand ships to accompany them. When they reach Troy and the request for Helen to be returned failed, the war was declared. The war went on for about ten years where it took a …show more content…
She just could not be breached. The Greeks created a sneaky move to get in, the Trojan Horse. The horse worse a ploy that Odysseus had come up with to trick the Trojans into believing that the Trojan Horse would please Athena. Unfortunately for the Trojans, the horse was a wooden statue that was hollow and allowed the Greeks to stage inside. Once the Greeks were inside Troy, the war was over.
In closing, I will leave you with this. Did the Battle of Troy truly exist? The story seems fairly far fetched although entertaining with heroes and gods. Reseachers and Historians to this day are still trying to answer this question. No true facts have been discovered to dictate the this battle had actually occured. The best sources of information on this topic is through the words of a
The Trojan War has always been a fascination of mine. Joining the military at a young age of 18, I never really cared much about history. This really set me back in my military career as the military is extremely history driven. Not many know it, but the military is dedicated to the past, present and future and learning from it. Units are named off of past conflicts and heroes such as Spartans or Trojans. There is even a website out there for lessons learned so we can grow from. Digging into a topic for a research project, the easiest choice for me was Troy. The movie sparked an extreme interest in learning more about this topic and the heroes of this time. An interesting question that we will get into is this. …show more content…
The problem with this material is that Homer was a poet, not a historian. Facts how that the Troy that Homer described did indeed exist, but the descriptions of the Battle of Troy may have been a myth and exaggerated. Let 's take a look at the battle. The Battle of Troy occurred when a prince named Paris of Troy abducted a Queen of Sparta named Helen. Helen was the wife of Menelaus which was obviously angered at this and declared war on Troy. King Menelaus sends Agamemnon and Odysseus as ambassadors in an attempt to request the return of Queen Helen. Agamemnon and Odysseys were sent to Troy with over a thousand ships to accompany them. When they reach Troy and the request for Helen to be returned failed, the war was declared. The war went on for about ten years where it took a …show more content…
She just could not be breached. The Greeks created a sneaky move to get in, the Trojan Horse. The horse worse a ploy that Odysseus had come up with to trick the Trojans into believing that the Trojan Horse would please Athena. Unfortunately for the Trojans, the horse was a wooden statue that was hollow and allowed the Greeks to stage inside. Once the Greeks were inside Troy, the war was over.
In closing, I will leave you with this. Did the Battle of Troy truly exist? The story seems fairly far fetched although entertaining with heroes and gods. Reseachers and Historians to this day are still trying to answer this question. No true facts have been discovered to dictate the this battle had actually occured. The best sources of information on this topic is through the words of a