Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Notes 2/17/10 West Civ Proj

Troajan war

Athens is in the provence of Attica. Oldest epic poem is the illiad written by Hommer. Achillies is the Greek hero of troy. There was a wedding and all Godisses exept Discordia were invited. She sent a golden apple to the fairest. Paris will choose the fairest. Paris is given Helen for choosing one of the Godesses. Paris takes the maried Helen. This leads to a war. The Greeks come to troy with thousands of warrior. The war ends when the greeks leave a wooden horse. It is brought into the city and greek comandoes attack the city and let the other Greeks inside. Troy was descoved in the 19th century and brought up the question what legends are real or not.

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