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YOU ARE THE REPORTER: The Trojan War A webquest for 7th Grade English Designed by Harriet Mallon hmallon@isd381.k12.mn.us You are a reporter covering the events of the Trojan War. It is your task to write a comprehensive article detailing the events of the war from its beginnings to the eventual fall of Troy.
Your task is to research information on the Trojan War and then write a news article in which you accurately describe the events that led to the downfall of Troy.
Your article must be at least two pages in length, and you must document any sources of information that you use.
The Process
You may choose to be a reporter for either the Greek or Trojan newspaper. Using the links provided in this lesson and others you may find in your own research, you must report the events as accurately as possible. Because this is a news article, you should be objective, so please avoid expressing your personal opinions on the topic. You should be able to cite several objective sources of information in your article.
Use a word processor to type your article, and be sure to use the tools on your computer to detect any errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
All articles written for this assignment will be read aloud in class, and we’ll have a class vote to determine the best and most accurate articles.
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Your article will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
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By completing this activity you will have learned to write an accurate and objective news article in which you properly cite the resources that you used.
Credits & References
The Age of Fable
THE TROJAN WAR MINERVA (Athena)
was the goddess of wisdom, but on one occasion she did a very foolish thing;
she entered into competition with Juno (Hera) and Venus (Aphrodite) for
the prize of beauty. It happened thus: At the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis all the gods
were invited with the exception of Eris, or Discord [article].
Enraged at her exclusion, the goddess threw a golden apple among the
guests, with the inscription, "For the fairest." Thereupon Juno,
Venus, and Minerva each claimed the apple. Jupiter (Zeus), not willing to
decide in so delicate a matter, sent the goddesses to Mount Ida,
where the beautiful shepherd Paris was tending
his flocks, and to him was committed the decision.
Menelaus called upon his brother chieftains of Greece to
fulfil their pledge, and join him in his efforts to recover his wife. They
generally came forward, but Ulysses, who had married Penelope, and
was very happy in his wife and child, had no disposition to embark in such a
troublesome affair. He therefore hung back and Palamedes
was sent to urge him. When Palamedes arrived at Ithaca Ulysses
pretended to be mad. He yoked an ass and an ox together to the plough and
began to sow salt. Palamedes, to try him, placed the infant Telemachus
before the plough, whereupon the father turned the plough aside, showing
plainly that he was no madman, and after that could no longer refuse to
fulfil his promise. Being now himself gained for the undertaking, he lent his
aid to bring in other reluctant chiefs, especially Achilles.
This hero was the son of that Thetis at whose
marriage the apple of Discord had been thrown among the goddesses. Thetis was
herself one of the immortals, a sea-nymph, and
knowing that her son was fated to perish before Troy if he went on the
expedition, she endeavoured to prevent his going. She sent him away to the
court of King Lycomedes
[at Skyros],
and induced him to conceal himself in the disguise of a maiden among the
daughters of the king. Ulysses, hearing he was there, went disguised as a
merchant to the palace and offered for sale female ornaments, among which he
had placed some arms. While the king's daughters were engrossed with the
other contents of the merchant's pack, Achilles handled the weapons and
thereby betrayed himself to the keen eye of Ulysses, who found no great
difficulty in persuading him to disregard his mother's prudent counsels and
join his countrymen in the war. Priam was king of Troy, and Paris, the shepherd and seducer of Helen, was his son. Paris had been brought up in obscurity, because there were certain ominous forebodings connected with him from his infancy that he would be the ruin of the state. These forebodings seemed at length likely to be realized, for the Grecian armament now in preparation was the greatest that had ever been fitted out. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and brother of the injured Menelaus, was chosen commander-in-chief. Achilles was their most illustrious warrior. After him ranked Ajax, gigantic in size and of great courage, but dull of intellect; Diomede, second only to Achilles in all the qualities of a hero; Ulysses (Odysseus), famous for his sagacity; and Nestor, the oldest of the Grecian chiefs, and one to whom they all looked up for counsel.
But Troy was no feeble enemy. Priam, the king, was now old, but he had been a wise prince and had strengthened his state by good government at home and numerous alliances with his neighbours. But the principal stay and support of his throne was his own Hector, one of the noblest characters painted by heathen antiquity. He felt, from the first, a presentiment of the fall of his country, but still persevered in his heroic resistance, yet by no means justified the wrong which brought this danger upon her. He was united in marriage with Andromache, and as a husband and father his character was not less admirable than as a warrior. The principal leaders on the side of the Trojans, besides Hector, were AEneas and Deiphobus, Glaucus and Sarpedon. After two years of preparation the Greek fleet and army assembled in the port
of Aulis
in Boeotia. Here Agamemnon in hunting killed a stag which was sacred to
Diana (Artemis),
and the goddess in return visited the army with pestilence, and produced a
calm which prevented the ships from leaving the port. Calchas,
the soothsayer, thereupon announced that the wrath of the virgin goddess
could only be appeased by the sacrifice of a virgin on her altar, and that
none other but the daughter of the offender would be acceptable. Agamemnon,
however reluctant, yielded his consent, and the maiden Iphigenia was
sent for under the pretence that she was to be married to Achilles. When she
was about to be sacrificed the goddess relented and snatched her away,
leaving a hind in her place, and Iphigenia, enveloped in a cloud, was carried
to Tauris, where Diana made her priestess of her temple. Tennyson, in his "Dream of Fair Women," makes Iphigenia thus describe her feelings at the moment of sacrifice: "I was cut off from hope in that sad place, "Still strove to speak; my voice was thick with sighs, "The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat, The wind now proving fair the fleet made sail and brought
the forces to the coast of Troy. The Trojans came to oppose their landing,
and at the first onset Protesilaus
fell by the hand of Hector. Protesilaus had left at home his wife, Laodamia,
who was most tenderly attached to him. When the news of his death reached her
she implored the gods to be allowed to converse with him only three hours.
The request was granted. Mercury (Hermes) led
Protesilaus back to the upper world, and when he died a second time Laodamia
died with him. There was a story that the nymphs planted elm trees round his
grave which grew very well till they were high enough to command a view of
Troy, and then withered away, while fresh branches sprang from the roots. Wordsworth has taken the story of Protesilaus and Laodamia for the subject of a poem . It seems the oracle had declared that victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall the first victim to the war. The poet represents Protesilaus, on his brief return to earth, as relating to Laodamia the story of his fate: "'The wished-for wind was given; I then revolved "'Yet bitter, ofttimes bitter was the pang "'But should suspense permit the foe to cry, [Online Textbook: Barry Powell, Classical
Myth, Chapter 18: The Trojan War, Part I: The House of Atreus; The Anger
of Achilles. Also see this chapter's Calvin College Study
Guide.]
Back to Chapter XXVI
The Trojan War The Judgement of ParisAccording to legend, the chain of events that led to the Trojan War started at a royal wedding. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons (a race of people created from ants!), was marrying a sea nymph named Thetis. Many gods attended the wedding, but Eris, daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, wasn't invited because she was the goddess of discord and bound to cause trouble. Angry at being excluded, Eris decided to disrupt the wedding banquet. She threw a golden apple marked "for the fairest" among the guests. The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite were there, and each thought that she was the fairest of them all. They bickered for a while about who deserved the apple, then asked Zeus to decide the matter. But Zeus didn't want to get involved, so he sent them to a prince named Paris or Alexander, the son of King Priam of Troy in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). Despite his royal heritage, Paris had been raised as a simple shepherd after his mother learned in a vision that he would cause the destruction of Troy. Why did Zeus choose Paris to judge the contest? Some say it was because Paris was the most honest person on earth. Or because he was too dumb to know better than to get involved in a dispute between bickering goddess. Perhaps Zeus was being a bit sarcastic toward those bickering goddesses when he chose Paris, who was known as a good judge of cattle. Or perhaps it was simply fate, because the judgement of Paris did indeed lead to the downfall of Troy. The goddesses tried to rig the contest by bribing Paris. Athena promised to help him lead Troy to victory in a war against the Greeks. Hera promised to make him the king of all Europe and Asia. And Aphrodite, the goddess of love, promised to give Paris the most beautiful woman in the world. The beautiful woman sounded better to Paris than power and glory, so he awarded the Apple of Discord to Aphrodite. She sent him to Sparta to collect his prize. There was just one problem. The most beautiful woman in the world was already married. The Face That Launched a Thousand ShipsShe was Helen, a half-mortal daughter of Zeus. Many powerful men had wanted to marry her, and her step-father, King Tyndareus of Sparta, was afraid this would lead to war. He was also afraid that someone would try to kidnap her (in fact, she had already been abducted by Theseus, the king of Athens, but her brothers had rescued her and brought her home). Tyndareus convinced Helen's suitors to swear an oath that they would protect her and her husband, whoever he might be. Then Helen married Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae. After Tyndareus's death Helen's husband became the king of Sparta. When Paris showed up in Sparta, Menelaus and Helen welcomed him as a guest. Then Menelaus left Sparta for a while. When he returned, Helen was gone. She had eloped with Paris. Menelaus was furious. Determined to win his wife back, he summoned the princes who had promised to protect Helen, and they agreed to help him attack Troy. Menelaus's brother Agamemnon was the leader of the expedition. Another member of the expedition was the hero Achilles, son of Peleus and Thetis, at whose wedding the trouble had started. When Achilles was a baby Thetis had dipped him in the River Styx. This made him invulnerable; no weapon could pierce his skin. He just had one weak spot - his heel. Thetis had held him by the heel when she dipped him, so Achilles could still be injured there. At first the Greek army couldn't set sail because there was no wind. Agamemnon solved that problem by sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemis. Then the winds turned favorable and one thousand Greek ships set sail for Troy. The Seige of TroyThe Greeks beseiged Troy for ten years. According to legend, the gods took great interest in the war. Hera and Athena still resented Paris for not giving them the Apple of Discord, so they helped the Greek side. Aphrodite assisted the Trojans. Zeus also favored the Trojans, but tried to remain impartial. Eris and her brother Ares helped both sides because they loved war! In the tenth year of the seige Agamemnon took Achilles's female prisoner, Briseis, for himself. Achilles was so angry that he refused to fight for the Greeks any longer. But when his friend Patroclus was killed by the mighty Trojan warrior Hector, Achilles returned to the war and killed Hector. Eventually Paris tried to shoot Achilles in the back, but the arrow struck Achilles's heel and he died. Soon Paris, too, was wounded in battle and he also died. After the deaths of Achilles and another hero, Ajax, the Greeks wanted to give up and go home. But the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, came up with a plan to get the Greek army into Troy. The Greeks built an immense wooden horse and Odysseus, Menelaus, and other warriors hid inside it. After leaving the horse at the gates of Troy, the Greek army sailed away. The Trojans thought the Greeks had given up and had left the horse as a gift. Paris's sister Cassandra, a priestess with psychic powers, knew the horse was trouble. She tried to warn her father, King Priam, but he wouldn't listen. A priest named Laocoon also warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts. He too was ignored. The horse was brought inside the walls of Troy. The Fall of TroyThat night, while the Trojans were sleeping, the Greek ships quietly returned. The soldiers in the horse slipped out and opened the city gates, and the Greek army quietly entered Troy. They started fires all over the city. The Trojans awoke to find their city burning. When they tried to flee, they were massacred by Greek soldiers. King Priam and almost all of the other Trojan chiefs were killed. Only Aeneas - the son of Aphrodite and a Trojan royal named Anchises - escaped. The Aeneid, by the Roman writer Virgil, is about Aeneas's travels after the Trojan war. (Homer's Odyssey is about the Greek hero Odysseus's travels after the war.) Most of the Trojan women were enslaved. Cassandra became Agamemnon's captive. He brought her back to his palace, where both were murdered by Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra in revenge for the death of her daughter Iphigenia. Helen was more fortunate. During the sack of Troy, Odysseus found her and took her to her husband, Menelaus. He told Menelaus that Helen had helped him steal a sacred Trojan statue, the Palladium. Pleased to hear that Helen was still loyal to the Greeks, Menelaus returned with her to Sparta (it took them seven years to get home) where, it seems, they lived happily ever after. Was There a Real Trojan War? d the Trojan war were imaginary. Then, in 1871, a German-born American citizen named Heinrich Schliemann began excavating an ancient city in Turkey. To the amazement of many, this retired businessman had discovered the lost city of Troy (also called Ilion, or Ilium in Latin). Nine cities have been found at the site, one on top of the other. The seventh city was destroyed around 1250 BC and appears to be the Troy of legend. You can still see the ruins of its towers and its walls, which were sixteen feet thick. Schliemann identified Troy's location through clues he found in the Iliad, the epic attributed to the Greek poet Homer. Little is known about Homer except that he was blind. In ancient times it was believed that he had lived during the Trojan War, but most modern scholars think that he lived in the 8th or 9th century B.C. His poems weren't written down when they were first composed, but were transmitted orally for many years. Some people suspect that the poems were actually the work of successive generations of poets, and that Homer didn't exist. Of course, the same thing was once said about Troy. Thanks to the work of Heinrich Schilemann, virtually everyone today agrees that the city whose seige Homer described was quite real. The eccentric Schliemann is often belittled as an amateur, even a fraud, but there is no denying the importance of his discovery. Without him we might still regard the Trojan War as nothing more than myth. What started the Trojan War? It has been suggested that the Greeks may have been fighting to gain control of the Dardanelles, a water passage between the Mediterranean and Black seas, near Troy. Or perhaps the war truly was fought over a woman named Helen. The truth is lost in the past. According to legend, the chain of events that led to the Trojan War started at a royal wedding. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons (a race of people created from ants!), was marrying a sea nymph named Thetis. Many gods attended the wedding, but Eris, daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, wasn't invited because she was the goddess of discord and bound to cause trouble. Angry at being excluded, Eris decided to disrupt the wedding banquet. She threw a golden apple marked "for the fairest" among the guests. The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite were there, and each thought that she was the fairest of them all. They bickered for a while about who deserved the apple, then asked Zeus to decide the matter. But Zeus didn't want to get involved, so he sent them to a prince named Paris or Alexander, the son of King Priam of Troy in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). Despite his royal heritage, Paris had been raised as a simple shepherd after his mother learned in a vision that he would cause the destruction of Troy. Why did Zeus choose Paris to judge the contest? Some say it was because Paris was the most honest person on earth. Or because he was too dumb to know better than to get involved in a dispute between bickering goddess. Perhaps Zeus was being a bit sarcastic toward those bickering goddesses when he chose Paris, who was known as a good judge of cattle. Or perhaps it was simply fate, because the judgement of Paris did indeed lead to the downfall of Troy. The goddesses tried to rig the contest by bribing Paris. Athena promised to help him lead Troy to victory in a war against the Greeks. Hera promised to make him the king of all Europe and Asia. And Aphrodite, the goddess of love, promised to give Paris the most beautiful woman in the world. The beautiful woman sounded better to Paris than power and glory, so he awarded the Apple of Discord to Aphrodite. She sent him to Sparta to collect his prize. There was just one problem. The most beautiful woman in the world was already married. The Face That Launched a Thousand ShipsShe was Helen, a half-mortal daughter of Zeus. Many powerful men had wanted to marry her, and her step-father, King Tyndareus of Sparta, was afraid this would lead to war. He was also afraid that someone would try to kidnap her (in fact, she had already been abducted by Theseus, the king of Athens, but her brothers had rescued her and brought her home). Tyndareus convinced Helen's suitors to swear an oath that they would protect her and her husband, whoever he might be. Then Helen married Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae. After Tyndareus's death Helen's husband became the king of Sparta. When Paris showed up in Sparta, Menelaus and Helen welcomed him as a guest. Then Menelaus left Sparta for a while. When he returned, Helen was gone. She had eloped with Paris. Menelaus was furious. Determined to win his wife back, he summoned the princes who had promised to protect Helen, and they agreed to help him attack Troy. Menelaus's brother Agamemnon was the leader of the expedition. Another member of the expedition was the hero Achilles, son of Peleus and Thetis, at whose wedding the trouble had started. When Achilles was a baby Thetis had dipped him in the River Styx. This made him invulnerable; no weapon could pierce his skin. He just had one weak spot - his heel. Thetis had held him by the heel when she dipped him, so Achilles could still be injured there. At first the Greek army couldn't set sail because there was no wind. Agamemnon solved that problem by sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemis. Then the winds turned favorable and one thousand Greek ships set sail for Troy. The Seige of TroyThe Greeks beseiged Troy for ten years. According to legend, the gods took great interest in the war. Hera and Athena still resented Paris for not giving them the Apple of Discord, so they helped the Greek side. Aphrodite assisted the Trojans. Zeus also favored the Trojans, but tried to remain impartial. Eris and her brother Ares helped both sides because they loved war! In the tenth year of the seige Agamemnon took Achilles's female prisoner, Briseis, for himself. Achilles was so angry that he refused to fight for the Greeks any longer. But when his friend Patroclus was killed by the mighty Trojan warrior Hector, Achilles returned to the war and killed Hector. Eventually Paris tried to shoot Achilles in the back, but the arrow struck Achilles's heel and he died. Soon Paris, too, was wounded in battle and he also died. After the deaths of Achilles and another hero, Ajax, the Greeks wanted to give up and go home. But the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, came up with a plan to get the Greek army into Troy. The Greeks built an immense wooden horse and Odysseus, Menelaus, and other warriors hid inside it. After leaving the horse at the gates of Troy, the Greek army sailed away. The Trojans thought the Greeks had given up and had left the horse as a gift. Paris's sister Cassandra, a priestess with psychic powers, knew the horse was trouble. She tried to warn her father, King Priam, but he wouldn't listen. A priest named Laocoon also warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts. He too was ignored. The horse was brought inside the walls of Troy. The Fall of TroyThat night, while the Trojans were sleeping, the Greek ships quietly returned. The soldiers in the horse slipped out and opened the city gates, and the Greek army quietly entered Troy. They started fires all over the city. The Trojans awoke to find their city burning. When they tried to flee, they were massacred by Greek soldiers. King Priam and almost all of the other Trojan chiefs were killed. Only Aeneas - the son of Aphrodite and a Trojan royal named Anchises - escaped. The Aeneid, by the Roman writer Virgil, is about Aeneas's travels after the Trojan war. (Homer's Odyssey is about the Greek hero Odysseus's travels after the war.) Most of the Trojan women were enslaved. Cassandra became Agamemnon's captive. He brought her back to his palace, where both were murdered by Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra in revenge for the death of her daughter Iphigenia. Helen was more fortunate. During the sack of Troy, Odysseus found her and took her to her husband, Menelaus. He told Menelaus that Helen had helped him steal a sacred Trojan statue, the Palladium. Pleased to hear that Helen was still loyal to the Greeks, Menelaus returned with her to Sparta (it took them seven years to get home) where, it seems, they lived happily ever after. Was There a Real Trojan War?Until the 19th century it was widely believed that Troy and the Trojan war were imaginary. Then, in 1871, a German-born American citizen named Heinrich Schliemann began excavating an ancient city in Turkey. To the amazement of many, this retired businessman had discovered the lost city of Troy (also called Ilion, or Ilium in Latin). Nine cities have been found at the site, one on top of the other. The seventh city was destroyed around 1250 BC and appears to be the Troy of legend. You can still see the ruins of its towers and its walls, which were sixteen feet thick. Schliemann identified Troy's location through clues he found in the Iliad, the epic attributed to the Greek poet Homer. Little is known about Homer except that he was blind. In ancient times it was believed that he had lived during the Trojan War, but most modern scholars think that he lived in the 8th or 9th century B.C. His poems weren't written down when they were first composed, but were transmitted orally for many years. Some people suspect that the poems were actually the work of successive generations of poets, and that Homer didn't exist. Of course, the same thing was once said about Troy. Thanks to the work of Heinrich Schilemann, virtually everyone today agrees that the city whose seige Homer described was quite real. The eccentric Schliemann is often belittled as an amateur, even a fraud, but there is no denying the importance of his discovery. Without him we might still regard the Trojan War as nothing more than myth. What started the Trojan War? It has been suggested that the Greeks may have been fighting to gain control of the Dardanelles, a water passage between the Mediterranean and Black seas, near Troy. Or perhaps the war truly was fought over a woman named Helen. The truth is lost in the past.
Books About the Trojan War
Book Categories: Myths, Trojan War, Schliemann, Helen of Troy, Homer, Classics, Novels, Ancient Greece, Children's Books, Videos Books About Greek MythologyGods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Robert A. Brooks, photographed by Anne Taute. An illustrated wall chart showing the legends, descent and relationships of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology. (UK) The Greek Myths by Robert Graves. Retells a large number of myths (including the story of the Trojan War) and puts them in historical context. Very informative. (UK) Mythology by Edith Hamilton, illustrated by Steele Savage. A clear and entertaining overview of Greek mythology, including the Trojan War. Books About Troy and the Trojan WarCelebrating Homer's Landscapes: Troy and Ithaca Revisited by John Victor Luce uses photographs to demonstrate that Homer's descriptions of the land around Troy were accurate. (UK) The Trojan War: Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present by Diane P. Thompson. Explores the historical and archaeological background of the war, and provides an overview of Troy stories from Homer through the 20th century. (UK) In Search of the Trojan War by Michael Wood. The history and archaeology of Troy. (UK) The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman details turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly, including the Trojan War. (UK) Warfare in the Classical World by John Gibson Warry is an illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors and warfare in the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome, beginning with the Trojan War. Books About Heinrich SchliemannBooks by Heinrich Schliemann. Out of print, but available from Alibris. Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik by Susan Heuck Allen. (UK) Golden Treasures of Troy: The Dream of Heinrich Schliemann by Herve Duchene, translated by Jeremy Leggatt. (UK) The Greek Treasure by Irving Stone. Biographical novel about Schliemann and his wife Sophia. From Alibris. Books About Helen of TroyHelen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom by Norman Austin considers portrayals of Helen in ancient Greek literature. (UK) Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Misogyny by Robert Emmet Meagher. Published in 1995. Available from Alibris. More Books About Helen of Troy Books by and About HomerThe Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. This groundbreaking translation of Homer's great epic poem about the Trojan War has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility without sacrificing the grandeur of Homer's style and language. (This review © Amazon.com.) (UK) War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue is an exciting poetic translation of parts of the Iliad. (UK) The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. Odysseus wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife Penelope. That's the basic plot of the epic poem Homer wrote 2,700 years ago, but even now an English translation by Robert Fagles is a true literary event. The ancient story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry. A gripping, fast-moving read. (This review © Amazon.com.) (UK) An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer by Thomas Blackwell. (UK) Homer: Poet of the Iliad by Mark W. Edwards. (UK) Homer: His Art and His World by Joachim Latacz, translated by James P. Holoka. (UK) Poetry As Performance: Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy is about traditional Greek epic composition. (UK) Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet by Barry B. Powell presents the author's theory that the Greek alphabet was invented so that the Iliad and Odyssey could be written down. The Song of the Sirens by Pietro Pucci and Gregory Nagy is a book of essays on Homer. (UK) Other ClassicsTen Plays by Euripides, translated by Moses Hadas. The Greek poet Euripides, born around 480 B.C., wrote some 92 plays, only 18 or 19 of which have survived to the present day. This collection includes The Trojan Women. (UK) Helen by Euripides, translated by James Michie and Colin Leach. About Helen of Troy. (UK) Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles, edited by Palmer Bovie. Translations of four plays by the Greek poet Sophocles, a contemporary of Euripides. Two of these plays, Ajax and Philoctetes, deal with warriors who fought in the Trojan War. (UK) Virgil's Aeneid translated by John Dryden. The Roman poet Virgil was born in 70 B.C. The Aeneid is an epic retelling of the adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas after the fall of Troy. (UK) The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare. Troilus was a Trojan prince who fell in love with the Greek Cressida, or Chryseis. This edition of Shakespeare's play includes new dramatic criticism and an updated bibliography. (UK) Books About Ancient GreeceModern Novels About the Trojan WarDaughter of Troy by Sarah B. Franklin. Tells the story of the Trojan War through the point of view of Briseis, Achilles' captive. (UK) The Siege of Troy by Greg Tobin. A modern retelling of Homer's Iliad. (UK) The Firebrand by Marian Zimmer Bradley. Tells the story of Troy through the eyes of Kassandra -- priestess, princess, and passionate woman. By the author of The Mists of Avalon. Out of print, but available from Alibris. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine. This satircal novel was a bestseller when it was first published in 1925. From Alibris. Children's Books About the Trojan WarChildren's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum, illustrated by Willy Pogany. For young adult readers. (UK) Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney. Tells the story of Troy through the eyes of Anaxander, daughter of the king of a tiny Greek island. For ages 12 and up. (UK) A Fair Wind for Troy by Doris Gates, illustrated by Charles Mikolayack. Recounts the events leading up to the Trojan War. For ages 9 to 12. Troy by Adele Geras. Fictional account of the Trojan War for young adult readers. Ancient Greeks by Daisy Kerr, illustrated by Mark Bergin. For ages 9-12. Tales of the Trojan War by Kamini Khanduri. For young adult readers. Coloring Book of the Trojan War by Harry Knill. The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War by Emily Little, illustrated by Michael Eagle, explains how the Greeks used the Trojan Horse to win the war. For ages 9-12. (UK) How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek? by Fiona MacDonald and David Salariya, photos by Peter Turvey and Mark Bergin. For ages 9-12. Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War by Clemence McLaren, illustrated by Joel Peter Johnson. Young adult novel of the Torojan War from the viewpoints of Helen and Cassandra. (UK) Video and DVDThese videos and DVDs are formatted for North American audiences. If you live in the UK, check out these Royalty Videos instead. (Some links below may not be visible if you are using the ad-blocking feature of Norton Personal Firewall.) Helen of Troy. 2003 TV miniseries from the USA Network, starring Sienna Guillory as Helen. John Rhys-Davies plays King Priam. Foot Soldier: The Greeks Ulysses. This adaptation of The Odyssey stars Kirk Douglas as seafaring hero Ulysses. From Amazon.com.
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