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19 unusual facts about Trojan War


2006 Idomeneo controversy

The Idomeneo production, directed by Hans Neuenfels, shows King Idomeneo staggering on stage carrying a bag of the severed heads of Neptune, Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad and placing each on chairs; a departure from the libretto, in which the action is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War.

Archicebus

The species name, achilles, is a reference to Achilles, the Greek hero of the Trojan War from Greek mythology.

Blyth Power

The band's lyrics often deal with episodes from history, ranging from the Trojan War to the Cod War — as well as aspects of English culture such as cricket, village life and trains.

Brian Twyne

Oxford's contention was that it had originally been established at Cricklade (or "Greeklade") by Trojans and some Greek philosophers under the leadership of Brutus after the Trojan War.

H.D.

H.D. used Euripides's play Helen as a starting point for a reinterpretation of the basis of the Trojan War and, by extension, of war itself.

Haluk Şahin

Shortly after the release of the film Troy in 2004, an article in Radikal written by Şahin and entitled "Were the Trojans Turks?" attracted public interest and generated a debate over the significance of Troy and the Trojan War in modern Turkey.

Imme Dros

From the 90s on she made the classic works of Homer and other Greek mythology stories into new forms.One of those books about a character from Greek Mythology is Odysseus : een man van verhalen, this book describes how Odysseus tries to get back home after the Trojan War.

In Search of the Trojan War

It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.

Invasión

The defeat of the defenders is evident from the beginning, as in the "Trojan War".

Iphigénie en Tauride

The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War.

Jack-a-Boy

Through the Professor, allusions made are to Homer, Georg Autenrieth's A Homeric Dictionary, H. L. Ahrens's Griechische, Formenlehre, John Flaxman, The Trojan War, Harlequin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Artemis, John Keats, Rhesus of Thrace, Achilles, Patroclus, Aubrey Beardsley, Franz Schubert, Theseus, Centaur, Jack the Giant Killer, Golden Helen, Hector, Andromache.

Jupiter and Thetis

Ingres' subject matter is borrowed from an episode in Homer's Iliad when the sea nymph Thetis begs Jupiter to intervene and guide the fate of her son Achilles; who was at the time embroiled in the Trojan War.

Krimisa

According to various mythographical accounts, not always uniform and coherent, of Strabo, Pseudo-Apollodorus, Lycophron and Pseudo-Aristotle, the Greek hero Philoctetes reached these places on his way back from the Trojan War, together with the Rhodians under Tlepolemus.

Madeline Miller

She also found Patroclus "tantalizing" because he is a minor character that later had a "big impact" on the outcome of the Trojan War.

Mentor

In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War.

Peter Le Neve

Among his library's holdings was a volume of fragments that found its way into the collection of Richard Rawlinson and thence to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, that contains the so-called "Rawlinson Excidium Troie", a unique testimony to a Latin account of the Trojan War that was used by many medieval writers.

The Maker of Universes

In this new world, Wolff regains his youth and vigor and falls in love with a local woman named Chryseis who lived in Troy at the time of the Trojan War.

Warhammer Ancient Battles

Covers armies of the ancient civilisations in the Near East, and Trojan War.

Zamora Cathedral

The Cathedral Museum, in the 17th century cloister, is notable particularly for its fine Flemish tapestries of the 15th-17th centuries depicting scenes from the Trojan War, Hannibal's Italian campaign and the life of Tarquin, the Etruscan king of Rome.


Ab ovo

Had Leda not lain the egg, Helen would not have been born, so Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no Trojan War.

Against the Tide of Years

In the Island in the Sea of Time, the island of Nantucket is transported by an unknown phenomenon (called "The Event" in the series) back in time to the Bronze Age circa 1250s BC (corresponding to the late Heroic Age of the Trojan war).

Anchises

After the defeat of Troy in the Trojan War, the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius (the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Aulis

Aulis, (modern Avlida), an ancient Greek town in Boeotia, and traditionally the port from which the Greek army set sail for the Trojan War.

Carians

Homer records that Miletus (later an Ionian city), together with the mountain of Phthries, the river Maeander and the crests of Mount Mycale were held by the Carians at the time of the Trojan War and that the Carians, qualified by the poet as being of incomprehensible speech, joined the Trojans against the Achaeans under the leadership of Nastes, brother of Amphimachos ("he who fights both ways") and son of Nomion.

Dymas

The scholiasts credit Dymas with another son, named Otreus, who fought the Amazons a generation before the Trojan War.

Epirot Islands

According to legend, the Epirote Islands were ruled by the descendants of Neoptolemus (or Pyrrhus), who came there, defeating the native Molossoi, after the events of the Trojan War.

Glory of Heracles

Throughout the plot, the characters' stories become intertwined with other mythological figures and events such as Achilles and the Trojan war.

Guido delle Colonne

He is the author of a prose narrative of the Trojan War entitled Historia destructionis Troiae ("History of the destruction of Troy") that was based on De excidio Trojae historia written by Dares Phrygius and Ephemeridos belli Trojani written by Dictys Cretensis.

Mares of Diomedes

Roger Lancelyn Green states in his Tales of the Greek Heroes that their descendants were used in the Trojan War.

Mount Ida

Zeus was located in the Altar of Zeus (near Adatepe, Ayvacık) during the Trojan War.

Mygdon of Phrygia

He led a force of Phrygians against the Amazons alongside his comrades Otreus (another Phrygian leader) and King Priam of Troy, one generation before the Trojan War.

Phrygia

In the mythic age before the Trojan war, during a time of an interregnum, Gordius (or Gordias), a Phrygian farmer, became king, fulfilling an oracular prophecy.

However, most scholars reject such a recent Phrygian migration and accept as factual the Iliad's account that the Phrygians were established on the Sakarya River before the Trojan War, and thus must have been there during the later stages of the Hittite Empire, and likely earlier.

Pisa, Greece

The Virgilian commentator Servius wrote that the Teuti, or Pelops, the king of the Pisaeans, arrived on the Tyrrhenian coast after the Trojan War and founded the Italian (and more famous) Pisa thirteen centuries before the start of the common era.

Profiles in Folly

Profiles in Folly is a historical book written by Alan Axelrod which is composed of many other true stories within the book itself, beginning with the Trojan War in "The Decision To Let Danger In", and ending with Hurricane Katrina in "The Decision to Stop Short of Leadership".

Rhytion

Rhytion is an ancient city of Crete, one of the seven cities of Crete that participated in the Trojan War according to the Iliad (besides Knossos, Gortys, Lykastos, Milatos, Lyktos, and Phaistos).

Stichius

The species name is taken from Greek mythology (Στιχίος, a commander of the Athenians in the Trojan war in Homer's Iliad).

Zeleia

Zeleia led a force of warriors to aid Troy during the Trojan War, led by Pandarus, son of Lycaon.