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Trojarn War (Graece) Date: Around 1190 BC ,I P!ace: TroyA Neighboring State o f Sparta in Greece Trojon wcW in Greek legend, famous war woged by the Greeks crgainst the citV of Troy ThE tradition is believed to reflect a real war hetween the Greeks o f the iare Mycenaean period and the inhabitants of the Troad, or Troas. in Anatolia, par t of present-do V Turkey. Modern ar chaeo Iogical excavations hove shown that Troy was destroyed b V fire sometime between 1230 BC and 1180 BC. and that the war may have resuited from the desire either to p Iunder the wealthy city or to put an end to Troy's commercial control o f the DardaneIles. Legendor y accounts o f the war traced its origin to o golden opple, inscribed 'for the foirest'ond thrown by Eris. goddess of discard, among the heaven IV guests at the wedding of Peleus. the ruler of Myrmidons. ond Thetis. one of the Nereids. The award of the apple to Aphrodite, goddess o f love, by Paris, son of King Priom of Troy, secured for Paris the favour of the goddess and the love of the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife of Menelous, the king of Spar ta. Helen went with Paris to Troy, and an expedition to avenge the injury to Menelaus was placed under the command of Agomemnon, king of Mycenae. Agomemnon's force included many famous Greek heroes, the most noted of whom were Achilles, Potroclus, the two Ajaxes, Teucer, Nestor. Odysseus, and Diomedes.

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