The Consequences Of The Trojan War In The Iliad

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The Iliad is a poem accredited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. The Iliad tells the story of the conflict between an alliance of Greek Cities and the City of Troy, following the kidnapping of Helen of Sparta by Paris. The Iliad focuses only on two weeks out of the ten years the conflict is said to have lasted. The Trojan War is said to have been committed to paper around the eighth century BCE. However, this poem was recited orally for centuries before it was written down. Despite the poem being written down in the eighth century, Greeks believed the battle took place somewhere around the thirteenth century BCE. Even though this is an epic tale of a great battle, scholars have wondered whether the City of Troy existed, and whether the Trojan …show more content…
The Trojan War focuses on the struggle between Agamemnon and Achilles, and as far as historians are able to conclude there is no evidence of the existence of such heroes. The city of Troy is located in northwestern Asia Minor, only a few kilometers from the Dardanelles, or Hellespont, which connects the Aegean Sean to the Sea of Marmara. Therefore anyone wishing to sail through the Hellespont would have had to sail through waters near Troy; making it strategically locates along a very important trading route. Regardless of the lack of evidence of the occurrence of the Trojan War, the City of Troy has embraced the Homeric poem. This can be represented through the different forms of architecture found at the site of Troy. For example, the two of the reliefs that decorate the body of the Polyxena Sarcophagus, detail the final events of the Trojan War. Also, in a Late Archaic relief sculpture, the unfinished arm of the central figure of the sculpture extends into a tree to the left. This tree, according to the book The Architecture of Greek and Roman Troy, it is possible for this tree to symbolize palm trees and tripods, which occasionally appear in scenes of slaying at the end of the Trojan War. However, a possible problem with this theory is that such trees are usually intended to indicate the setting as a sanctuary of

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