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This 3 page paper discusses the Trojan War: it argues that the war was real, and discusses the battle between Achilles and Hector. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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But was the Trojan War real? This paper discusses the causes of the war, the combatants, the history and whether or not it was real. Discussion According to legend,
it was Helens beauty that started the whole mess: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium," asks poet Christopher Marlowe. Helen
was the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta; she ran away with Paris the Prince of Troy and her husband, not unnaturally, went after her, bringing with him the entire
Greek fleet. His brother Agamemnon was commander in chief of the Greek forces, which included Odysseus and Achilles. They sailed to Troy and laid siege to the city, which the
Trojans defended with great courage and honor for ten years; Hector was the Trojan champion. The city finally fell when the Greeks pretended to withdraw, but left a huge wooden
horse outside the gates. The Trojans assumed it was a gift, perhaps the acknowledgement of one army to a brave foe, and brought it inside the walls. But there were
men hidden in the horse, and they crept out in the middle of the night and opened the gates and Troy fell. Whether or not Helen was the cause
of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred Korfmann, is that there was a war, or a number of wars, at the site
of what is now known to be Troy. "The" Trojan War, may have been the most serious of a series of conflicts that took place in and around the location
of Troy at the end of the Bronze Age, and he argues that the burden of proof should be on those who say there was no Trojan War, as opposed
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