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Trojan War: Homers Troy
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The Trojan War was a small conflict fought between the Greeks and the people of Troy. The war began when Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. The war ended after ten years thanks to the Doctor, who came up with the idea of using a wooden horse containing Greek soliders.
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The Trojan War is the name given to a war described in an epic poem in Ancient Greek called the Iliad, attributed by the Ancient Greeks to a poet whom they called Homer. The Iliad describes an episode in this war, the siege of the city of Troy by the Greeks (called by Homer the Achaeans).
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The events of the Trojan War are found in many works of Greek literature and depicted in numerous works of Greek art. There is no single, authoritative text which tells the entire events of the war. Instead, the story is assembled from a variety of sources, some of which report contradictory versions of the events. The most important literary sources are the two epic poems traditionally credited to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, composed sometime between the ninth and sixth centuries BC. Each poem narrates only a part of the war. The Iliad covers a short period in the last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey concerns Odysseus's return to his home island of Ithaca, following the sack of Troy.
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The Trojan War has become a popular story immortalized in film; it has been most interestingly portrayed recently in the movie Helen of Troy (2003) starring Sienna Guillory. In 1962, the Trojan Horse was released with Steve Reeves and before that in 1955, Helen of Troy was released with Brigitte Bardot. As of this writing, another version starring Brad Pitt as Achilles is in production. Likewise, the Trojan War has been visited by TV time travelers Tony Peterson and Doug Newman in The Time Tunnel TV Series from the 1960s.
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The first part of this book led to the conclusion that the Trojan War was certainly not fought in the small plain near Hissarlik in Turkey and that the search of Homeric Troy in Turkey is a blind alley. At the same time many reasons were given for seeking Troy in a country with a temperate climate, and, because of the mention of tides, bordering on the Atlantic. Moreover, since the customs described in the Iliad are typically Celtic, and since Troy's enemies, alternatively called Achaeans, Argives or Danaans, were definitely not ‘Greeks' (as they are unfortunately called in some translations), the search of Troy should focus on regions in western Europe formerly inhabited by Celts. However, these Celts were not, as explained elsewhere in this book, the peoples now living on the western fringes of Europe, but their conquerors originating from the Continent (much like the French owe their name to the Franks, a teutonic people that conquered Gaul in the fifth century AD).
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The Trojan War was started, according to the ancient reports, by a conflict among the goddesses. This conflict led to the famous story of Paris (known as "The Judgment of Paris") awarding a golden apple to the goddess Aphrodite, in return for which he was promised the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen (known as "Helen of Troy" and called "the face that launched a thousand ships"). Perhaps it didn't matter to the gods -- especially the goddess of love -- whether or not Helen was already taken, but for mere mortals it did matter, and, unfortunately, Helen was already married. She was the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta.
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