Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, has been waiting many years for his return from the Trojan War. |
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Whatever historical events underlie the legend of the Trojan War did not occur as depicted here. |
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Helen is blamed for causing the Trojan War because the Greeks and Trojans were fighting over her. |
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The readings make reference to Shakespeare's Richard III, the Trojan War and Rin Tin Tin. |
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According to the Homeric epics, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by the archer Teucer, who came from the island of Salamis, off Attica. |
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In Alexandrine verse, the play recounts the sufferings in love of the heirs of the Trojan War. |
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Celsus, a 1st-century CE landowner, wrote a massive history of medicine going back to the Trojan War. |
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It is ten years since the end of the Trojan War, a war that lasted ten years. |
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The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, which combines humour and pessimism, rings out like a darkly humourous warning of the Second World War. |
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Not since the Trojan War has the fate of the Hellenes been so central to humankind. |
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After twenty years of the Trojan War, Helen was retaken by Menelaus and gave birth to a daughter named Hermione. |
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A friend asked me to codirect a production of Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's Trojan War play, and the experience was a complete revelation. |
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Aphrodite and the Gods of Love acknowledges her crucial role in the epic Trojan War with The Judgement of Paris. |
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I think the timocratic structure of divinity in early Greek myth might be quite a good thing to apply to the tale of Eris, the apple and the Trojan War. |
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Located in the center of the Bay of Cádiz, El Puerto de Santa Maria was founded after the Trojan War. |
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Homer in his description of the Trojan War mentions several other Aethiopians. |
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Cutting across the orchestrated glorification of power and plunder, he wrote of the monumental folly of the Trojan War, supposedly fought over a bedizened, sensuous, and totally guiltless Helen of Troy. |
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An elegant, modern stadium, it is above all imposing, bringing to mind the Greek ships mythological hero Ajax the Great leapt between during the Trojan War. |
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Cassandra plunges us into the drama which takes place at the time of the Trojan War, with its prophetess who has the gift of predicting the future, but whom no one will ever believe. |
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Murder, suicide, and madness have destroyed all except Andromache by the play's end, which is original in that Racine overturns the legendary account of the Trojan War and allows a Trojan queen to triumph over the Greeks. |
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Iphigenia in Aulis' describes one episode, the start of the Trojan War. |
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For instance, the generic name for yarrow is Achillea, after the legendary Greek hero Achilles, who is said to have used the foliage to stanch the flow of blood from wounded fellow soldiers during the Trojan War. |
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Who started this squalid little Trojan War? |
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The Trojan War, which Ussher places during the era of the Judges. |
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The journey of the Argonauts originates a generation before the Trojan War, since many of the crew are Aristides, the fathers of heroes who went on to fight as heroes in the Trojan War. |
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I hope Turkey will be asked to commit its citizens to abandoning their dreadful custom of abducting the most beautiful Greek women, something they have been doing since the days of the Trojan War. |
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The Historia itself begins with the Trojan Aeneas, who according to Roman legend settled in Italy after the Trojan War. |
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In Homer's Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War. |
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In vengeance, before the Trojan War, Poseidon sent a sea monster to attack Troy. |
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There is also a tradition that the islands were colonised by Rhodes after the Trojan War. |
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In between the Argo and the Trojan War, there was a generation known chiefly for its horrific crimes. |
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Greek mythology culminates in the Trojan War, fought between Greece and Troy, and its aftermath. |
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Few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. |
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Divinely aided, Aeneas escapes the wrath of Achilles and survives the Trojan War. |
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In describing infantry combat, Homer names the phalanx formation, but most scholars do not believe the historical Trojan War was so fought. |
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Indeed, the Trojan War is won by a notorious example of Greek guile in the Trojan Horse. |
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Even without Homer, the Trojan War story had remained central to Western European medieval literary culture and its sense of identity. |
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Most nations and several royal houses traced their origins to heroes at the Trojan War. |
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Subjects from the Trojan War were a favourite among ancient Greek dramatists. |
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In his Histories, Herodotus gives the Persian and Greek accounts of a series of kidnappings that led to the Trojan War. |
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The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on the Trojan War and its aftermath. |
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The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan War. |
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Their troops fight from chariots, as did the Greeks in the Trojan War. |
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He awarded the apple to Aphrodite, thus indirectly causing the Trojan War. |
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In the 3rd century CE, a certain Septimius produced what appeared to be a Latin translation of an eyewitness account to the Trojan War by Dictys of Crete. |
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The second covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. |
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It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. |
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The play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on events of the Trojan War and depicts Achilles as a coward, Ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. |
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Finally, Odysseus asks Demodocus to return to the Trojan War theme and tell of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role. |
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However, as these events are prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, when it reaches an end the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. |
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There is probably no more pertinent a time for a revival of Shakespeare's story of the Trojan war than now. |
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The stadion did not suffice for the races of horses and chariots which had been favorites with the Greeks since the Trojan war. |
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