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THE TROJAN WAR
THE GREEKS
Traditionally, the Trojan War arose from a sequence of events beginning with a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Eris the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and so arrived bearing a gift. A golden apple, inscribed “for the fairest”.
Each of the goddesses claimed to be the “fairest”, and the rightful owner of the apple. They submitted the judgement to a shepherd they encountered tending his flock. Each of the goddesses promised the young man a boon in return for his favour. Power, wisdom, or love. The youth, in fact Paris, a Trojan prince who had been raised in the countryside, chose love, and awarded the apple to Aphrodite.
As his reward, Aphrodite caused Helen, the Queen of Sparta, and the most beautiful of all women, to fall in love with Paris.
The judgement of Paris earned him the ire of both Hera and Athena, and when Helen left her husband, Menelaus, the Spartan king, for Paris of Troy, Menelaus called upon all the kings and princes of Greece to wage war upon Troy.
Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon King of Mycenae, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris’ insult. After the death of many heroes, including the Achaeans, Achilles, Ajax and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.
The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans, except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves. They desecrated the temples, thus earning the wrath of the gods.
Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes, and many founded colonies in distant shores.
The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, Aphrodite’s son and one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.
TWG-05
THE TROJAN WAR,
THE GREEKS,
ODYSSEUS.
(1 pc)
Odysseus was a legendary Greek King of Ithaca, and the hero of Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey. He also plays key roles in Homer’s Iliad and other works in the same epic cycle.
The son of Laertes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and the father of Telemachus and Acusilaus.
Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile and versatility, and is therefore known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning.
He is most famous for his “homecoming”, which took him ten eventful years after the decade long Trojan War.
TROY AND HER ALLIES
TWT-20A
THE TROJAN WAR,
TROY AND HER ALLIES,
TROJAN WARRIOR.
(1 pc)
TWT-20B
THE TROJAN WAR,
TROY AND HER ALLIES,
TROJAN WARRIOR.
(1 pc)
TWT-20D
THE TROJAN WAR,
TROY AND HER ALLIES,
TROJAN WARRIORS.
(2 pcs)
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL DEALER FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
THE TROJAN WAR
THE GREEKS
Traditionally, the Trojan War arose from a sequence of events beginning with a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Eris the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and so arrived bearing a gift. A golden apple, inscribed “for the fairest”.
Each of the goddesses claimed to be the “fairest”, and the rightful owner of the apple. They submitted the judgement to a shepherd they encountered tending his flock. Each of the goddesses promised the young man a boon in return for his favour. Power, wisdom, or love. The youth, in fact Paris, a Trojan prince who had been raised in the countryside, chose love, and awarded the apple to Aphrodite.
As his reward, Aphrodite caused Helen, the Queen of Sparta, and the most beautiful of all women, to fall in love with Paris.
The judgement of Paris earned him the ire of both Hera and Athena, and when Helen left her husband, Menelaus, the Spartan king, for Paris of Troy, Menelaus called upon all the kings and princes of Greece to wage war upon Troy.
Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon King of Mycenae, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris’ insult. After the death of many heroes, including the Achaeans, Achilles, Ajax and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.
The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans, except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves. They desecrated the temples, thus earning the wrath of the gods.
Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes, and many founded colonies in distant shores.
The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, Aphrodite’s son and one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.
TWG-05
THE TROJAN WAR,
THE GREEKS,
ODYSSEUS.
(1 pc)
Odysseus was a legendary Greek King of Ithaca, and the hero of Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey. He also plays key roles in Homer’s Iliad and other works in the same epic cycle.
The son of Laertes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and the father of Telemachus and Acusilaus.
Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile and versatility, and is therefore known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning.
He is most famous for his “homecoming”, which took him ten eventful years after the decade long Trojan War.
TROY AND HER ALLIES
TWT-20A
THE TROJAN WAR,
TROY AND HER ALLIES,
TROJAN WARRIOR.
(1 pc)
TWT-20B
THE TROJAN WAR,
TROY AND HER ALLIES,
TROJAN WARRIOR.
(1 pc)
TWT-20D
THE TROJAN WAR,
TROY AND HER ALLIES,
TROJAN WARRIORS.
(2 pcs)
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL DEALER FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
