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    The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is an epic catalogue in the second book of the Iliad listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in...
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    characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. * See Catalogue of Ships ** See Trojan Battle Order This table lists characters killed during the...
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    The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the twelfth or thirteenth century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans...
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    In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse (Greek: δούρειος ίππος, romanized: doureios hippos, lit. 'wooden horse') was a wooden horse said to have been used...
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    Epic Cycle (redirect from Trojan War Cycle)
    epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the...
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    While researchers of the 18th century had largely rejected the story of the Trojan War as fable, the discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik reopened...
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  • against the Achaean invaders during the Trojan War. Achaean Leaders Trojan Battle Order Homer, Iliad 2.811 ff. Dictys Cretensis, 2.35 Apollodorus, Epitome...
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    characters Sortes Homericae Tabulae Iliacae Telemachy The Golden Bough Trojan Battle Order Trojan War in literature and the arts Venetus A manuscript Kirk, Geoffrey...
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    There are a wide range of ways in which people have represented the Trojan War in literature and the arts. The pre-war episodes of Leda and the Swan and...
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    literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Iliou persis...
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    Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role in the Trojan War, and is portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage...
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  • The Song of Achilles (category Novels set during the Trojan War)
    rejoin the battle. Instead, Patroclus impersonates Achilles by donning his armor and leads his men into battle; the offensive forces a Trojan retreat. During...
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    Judgement of Paris (category Trojan War)
    story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War, and in later versions to the foundation of Rome. Eris, the goddess...
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    the Catalogue of Ships, the most famous epic catalogue, and the Trojan Battle Order In the Homeric and post-Homeric tradition, epic style is typically...
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  • in the Trojan Battle Order in the Iliad, and later when Homer calls it a holy town. Zeleia led a force of warriors to aid Troy during the Trojan War, led...
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    Cycle, also known as Trojan cycle, it narrated the stories of the Achaean heroes returning to Greece after the end of the Trojan War. The story of the...
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  • In the Iliad: Catalogue of Ships, the most famous epic catalogue Trojan Battle Order In the Odyssey, the catalogue of women in Hades in Book XI. In the...
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    (/θɜːrˈsaɪtiːz/; Ancient Greek: Θερσίτης) was a soldier of the Greek army during the Trojan War. The Iliad does not mention his father's name, which may suggest that...
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  • Halicarnassus (see Cyclic Poets). It is possible that the "Trojan Battle Order" (the list of Trojans and their allies, of Iliad 2.816–876, which forms an appendix...
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    Achaeans (Homer) (category People of the Trojan War)
    part of Ahhiyawa. Ahhiya(wa) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy (note the similarity...
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    followed the Bronze Age period of Mycenaean Greece during which Homer's Trojan War is set. The composition of the Iliad, on the other hand, is placed immediately...
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    Iliad (category Trojan War literature)
    try to influence the battle. Emboldened by Athena, Diomedes wounds Ares and puts him out of action. Hector rallies the Trojans and prevents a rout. Diomedes...
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    Catalogue of Ships (category Trojan War)
    of the text, and also the odd way it is inserted into the poem. Trojan Battle Order Catalogue of Women by Hesiod Succinctly expressed by C.M. Bowra (1933)...
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    according to Ephorus and Stephanus of Byzantium. In giving the Trojan battle order in Book 2 of the Iliad, Homer mentions Cytorus and Sesamon as Paphlagonian...
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    aside the geographical knowledge shown in the Catalogue of Ships and Trojan Battle Order, which are extremely detailed and precise, but may have an orally...
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    Artemis to assure good sailing weather to travel to Troy and fight in the Trojan War. In Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon's...
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    Ajax (play) (category Trojan War literature)
    end of the Trojan War. The play opens with a dialogue between Athena and Odysseus: After the great warrior Achilles had been killed in battle, there was...
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  • Mysians? Pelasgians (mentioned in Iliad's Catalogue of Ships and in Trojan Battle Order) - They lived scattered through several regions of ancient Greece...
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    Philoctetes (Sophocles play) (category Trojan War literature)
    The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, but before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by...
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  • The Silence of the Girls (category Novels set during the Trojan War)
    of his lieutenants, and the story ends as the Greek warriors depart the Trojan shores to return to their homes, accompanied by Briseis and the female war...
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