achilles started the trojan war in the iliad.
achilles started the trojan war in the iliad.
who started the trojan war in the iliad?
achilles
in greek mythology, the trojan war (; ) was waged against the city of troy by the achaeans (greeks) after paris of troy took helen from her husband menelaus, king of sparta. the war is one of the most important events in greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of greek literature, most notably homer's "iliad". the core of the "iliad" (books ii – xxiii) describes a period of four days and two nights in the tenth year of the decade-long siege of troy; the "odyssey" describes the journey home of odysseus, one of the war's heroes. other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. episodes from the war provided material for greek tragedy and other works of greek literature, and for roman poets including virgil and ovid.
trojan war
according to the "iliad", the phrygians were trojan allies during the trojan war. the phrygia of homer's "iliad" appears to be located in the area that embraced the ascanian lake and the northern flow of the sangarius river and so was much more limited in extent than classical phrygia. homer's "iliad" also includes a reminiscence by the trojan king priam, who had in his youth come to aid the phrygians against the amazons ("iliad" 3.189). during this episode (a generation before the trojan war), the phrygians were said to be led by otreus and mygdon. both appear to be little more than eponyms: there was a place named otrea on the ascanian lake, in the vicinity of the later nicaea; and the mygdones were a people of asia minor, who resided near lake dascylitis (there was also a mygdonia in macedonia). during the trojan war, the phrygians sent forces to aid troy, led by ascanius and phorcys, the sons of aretaon. asius, son of dymas and brother of hecabe, is another phrygian noble who fought before troy. quintus smyrnaeus mentions another phrygian prince, named coroebus, son of mygdon, who fought and died at troy; he had sued for the hand of the trojan princess cassandra in marriage. king priam's wife hecabe is usually said to be of phrygian birth, as a daughter of king dymas.
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