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THE TROJAN WAR
BY STATHIS, PHOTIS, JOHN & KOSTAS (2ND GROUP,
f2)
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of king
Atreus and queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of
Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father
of Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes and Chrysothemis.
Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or
Argos, thought to be different names for the same area.
When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, left with Paris the
Prince of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united
Greek armed forces to start the Trojan War.
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Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the
Greeks during the Trojan War. During the fighting,
Agamemnon killed Antiphus and 15 other Trojan
soldiers. The Iliad (the famous Homer’s Epic) tells the
story of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles
in the final year of the war. Agamemnon took an
attractive woman slave, Briseis, one of the spoils of the
war, from Achilles. Achilles, the greatest warrior of the
age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost
the Greek armies the war.
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In his youth, Patroclus accidentally killed his friend,
Clysonymus, during an argument over a game of dice.
His father fled with Patroclus into exile to evade
revenge, and they took shelter at the palace of their
kinsman King Peleus of Phthia. There Patroclus
apparently first met Peleus' son Achilles. Peleus sent
the boys to live in the wilderness and be raised by
Chiron, the cave-dwelling wise King of the Centaurs.
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When the tide of war turned away from the Acheans, and the
Trojans threatened their ships, Patroclus convinced Achilles to let
him put on Achilles' armor and lead the Greek army into combat.
In his lust for combat, Patroclus pursued the Trojans all the way
back to the gates of Troy, defying Achilles' order to break off
combat once the ships were saved. Patroclus killed many Trojans
and finished off by Hector. At the time of his death, Patroclus had
killed 53 enemy soldiers.
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Achilles was the son of Peleus and Thetis:
Peleus was a King in Greece, and Thetis was a
nymph.
When Achilles was still a little baby, his mother
tried to protect him from harm by dipping him
into a river that had special magic water. And
it worked; he could not be harmed, except for
one heel that his mother held him by as she
dipped him in the water. Now when someone
is very strong but has one weak spot, we call
that their "Achilles' heel."
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When he grew up, Achilles heard a prophecy.
It was this: he could make a choice to live
quietly and without fame or honor, and live a
long time and die in bed, or he could choose to
be famous in his lifetime and always
remembered, but to die young. Achilles chose
to be famous and die young. This is how that
happened in Homer‘s Illiad.
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The Iliad begins with a fight between the leader
of the Greeks, King Agamemnon of Mycenae,
and the Greeks' best fighter, Achilles. The
Greeks had won a battle and were splitting up
the booty (the stuff they had captured).
Everybody had a pile of stuff. Achilles got a
woman among his stuff, to be his slave, whose
name was Briseis.
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But Agamemnon decided that HE wanted the
pretty Briseis, and he just took her from
Achilles, saying that he was the head of the
army so he would do what he liked.
Well, Achilles was so angry that Agamemnon
took Briseis from him that he refused to fight
for the Greeks anymore and just sat in his tent
and sulked. Without their best fighter, the
Greeks started losing battles.
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Finally Achilles' best friend Patroclos thought
of an idea. He put on Achilles' famous armour
and went out to fight. Both the Greeks and the
Trojans thought Achilles had come back to the
battle and the Greeks won a big victory, but
Patroclos was killed in the fighting: he might
dress like Achilles but he could not fight like
him.
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When Achilles heard that Patroclos was dead,
he was ashamed of how he had been sulking.
He agreed to fight again. Now the Greeks
really started to win. So the best Trojan fighter,
Prince Hector, came out from Troy to fight
Achilles. They fought for a long time, but
finally Achilles killed Hector.
Hector's father, King Priam, came to Achilles at
night to ask for his son's body back, and
Achilles gave it to him.
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Achilles continued fighting heroically, killing
many of the Trojans. Finally Priam's son, Paris,
aided by Apollo, wounded Achilles in the heel
with an arrow; Achilles died of the wound.