Trojan War - Background

Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment. See also Judgement of Paris. According to Greek mythology, Zeus became king of the gods by overthrowing his father Cronus; Cronus in turn had overthrown his father Ouranos. Zeus came to learn of a prophecy that he himself would be overthrown by a son of his. (Within the extent of Greek myth, though, this never happened). Another prophecy said of the sea-nymph Thetis, with whom Zeus had an affair, that her son would be greater th ...

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Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans. See Catalogue of Ships Abantes Arcadia Aetolia Athens and Salamis Argos and Tiryns Boebeans (Thessaly) Boeotia Crete Dulichium Elis Elone (Thessaly) Enienes Iolcus (Thessaly) Ithaca Locris Magnesia Meliboea Minyans Mycenae and Corinth Myrmidones of Argos Oechalia Ormenius Pherae Phylacia Phocia Pylos Rhodes See also:

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Trojan War - Telephus. When the Greeks left for the war, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King Telephus. In the battle, Achilles wounded Telephus, who killed Thersander. The wound would not heal and Telephus asked an oracle who claimed "he that wounded shall heal". Telephus went to Aulis, and either pretended to be a beggar, asking Achilles to help heal his wound, or kidnapped Orestes and held him for ransom, demanding the wound be healed. Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge ...

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The ghost of Achilles appeared to the survivors of the war, demanding Polyxena, the Trojan princess, be sacrificed before anybody could leave. Neoptolemus did so. According to the Odyssey, Menelaus's fleet was blown by storms to Crete and Egypt where they were unable to sail away because the wind was calm. Menelaus had to catch Proteus, a shape-shifting sea god to find out what sacrifices to which gods he would have to make to guarantee safe passage. Proteus also told Menelaus that he was destined for Elysium (Heaven) after his death. ...

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