Some of the questions generated by reading or watching movies about the Trojan War and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Here are the names of the 11 men who have a claim to fame for being the husbands of Helen of Troy.
This is a handy list of warriors in the Iliad that shows who did the killing, his victims, and the method of inflicting death.
Top questions about the Trojan War, movies about the Trojan War and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Did Epeus, Odysseus, Athena, or someone else create the Trojan horse?
A reference to overpopulation in antiquity appears in the Epic Cycle, the series of poems, that together with the Iliad and Odyssey, covers the Trojan War.
In the Warner Bros. movie "Troy," Briseis plays the love interest of Achilles. Briseis is portrayed as a war prize given to Achilles, taken by Agamemnon, and returned to Achilles. Briseis is a virgin priestess of Apollo. The legends say slightly different things about Briseis.
In the Warner Bros. movie "Troy," Menelaus is the feeble, old husband of Helen, the ruler of Sparta, and the brother of Agamemnon, head king of all the Greeks.
Paris seeks Menelaus for hand-to-hand combat for the hand of Helen. After Paris is injured, Hector kills Menelaus rather than let Menelaus kill his brother. The legend is somewhat different.
In the Warner Bros. movie "Troy," Briseis stabs Agamemnon after the sack of the city of Troy has begun. In the legends about Agamemnon, especially in the stories by the tragedians, Agamemnon makes it back home. How did Agamemnon die?
In the Troy movie, Achilles emerges from the Trojan Horse. Did this really happen?
Did Homer write the Iliad, Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns?
Why Are the Greeks called Hellenes and not Helenes?
You've decided to read about Troy in a translation of the original version -- the Iliad, by Homer. Almost immediately, you face a serious problem -- you don't know who, what or where Homer is talking about.
"I'm reading the Illiad to my grandson (age 10) and I enticed him with brief descriptions of the Trojan Horse event... looking ahead in the book, I realize that the Illiad ends before the 'Horse' event takes place. Did Homer write about the 'Horse'?"
From email: "A classmate mentioned a story about Odysseus pushing a plow in such a frenzy, when the Achaians came to tell him that the time for war had come, that his family had to put the baby in the furrow to determine if Odysseus was crazy. Have you ever heard of such a story?"
Where does the expression "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts" come from?
The question was asked whether or not Achilles had any children. After all, he is not portrayed as married, and his love of Patroclus has led to speculation that Achilles was gay, although his outrage over the taking of his war prize, Briseis, by Agamemnon shows that Achilles certainly had an interest in women regardless of what his relationship was with Patroclus.
