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...Rhesus takes place during the Trojan War, on the night when Odysseus and Diomedes sneak into the Trojan camp and kill Rhesus, instead of Hector, by orders of Athena....

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Andromache dramatizes Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione.

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It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events of the Iliad, but before the end of the Trojan War.

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A prelude to the Trojan War.

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...Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon....

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...Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describ...

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...Hēkabē is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy. The central figure is Hēkabē, wife of King Priam, formerly Queen of the now-fallen city. It depicts Hēkabē's grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena, and the revenge...

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated the whole ?cycle? of the events of ...

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...Homer’s “Iliad” begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends ... ... “Iliad” begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with th... ...her bards, who between them narrated the whole “cycle” of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have surviv... ..., and the pyre had ravined up his flesh, And earth had veiled his bones, the Trojans then Tarried in Priam’s city, sore afraid Before the might of sto... ...Goddesses. And with her followed twelve beside, each one A princess, hot for war and battle grim, Far famous each, yet handmaids unto her: Penthesilei... ...rrying thronged The T rojans, greatly marvelling, when they saw The tireless War god’s child, the mailed maid, Like to the Blessed Gods; for in her fa... ...’s art strides before all. So followed they, with battle fury filled, Strong Trojans and wild hearted Amazons. And like T ritonis seemed she, as she w... ... other’s flesh With the fierce brass: was neither ruth nor rest, And all the Trojan soil was crimson red. Then first Penthesileia smote and slew Molio... ... the neck, lops life away. So, by the hands of Tydeus’ son laid low Upon the Trojan plain, far, far away From their own highland home, they fell. Nor...

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...Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need Philoctetes and his bow (given...

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...Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare's problem play about the Trojan War. As the opening Chorus tells us, the play begins in the middle of the epic conflict, and counterpoints the drama of battle with the romance of the title characters. Just as Agamemnon and his Greek forces (particula...

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...The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few w...

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...r's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King of Ithaca: his experiences fighting the Trojan War, and his ten years' journey home to his faithful wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. ( Summary by Elizabeth Klett )...

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...se of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fle...

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...Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC, the same year the play was produced....

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...f himself though largely unrewarded". You feel ashamed, compelled to compensate. A seed of Trojan guilt. I harp on it by mentioning others who depr... ...well, her voice was steel, and she was gone. I instantly grasped the stark futility of any war I'd wage to bring her back. I also knew it'll never ... ... of a remote battle, behind the fortified hilltops of my self. It will arrive, this ruinous war, it will exact the price. Like everything else in li...

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...es Menelaus, and the princes make their vow. When, some years later, the Trojan prince Paris kidnaps Helen and takes her off to Troy, the Greek pr... ...ced to. (see The Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology). When after ten years of war and innumerable deaths on the battlefield Troy is conquered, and the ...

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...r Me? ** * * When I came into life we were in the midst of a full-blown war and my first imprinting came from that: the fear of death, physical a... ...y the result of the spiritual activity of the artist. The film “The Great War” tells about how two fearful and cowardly soldiers can suddenly trans... ...egg and fertilize it. The Greek army was also decimated during their long war against the Trojans, and it never would have been able to conquer the... ...e it. The Greek army was also decimated during their long war against the Trojans, and it never would have been able to conquer the city if Ulysses... ...ought up the trick of the wooden horse, and the gods hadn’t encouraged the Trojans to open the city doors and bring the horse in and welcome it as a... ... ends up losing all of them, along with all the treasures that made up his war booty, and this causes him immense pain. He alone is saved, and first ... ...was the most beautiful woman in the world. Ten long years of a very trying war must go by before they manage to conquer that lost beauty, but it sur...

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........................................................................ 169 WAR OR PACIFISM .............................................................. ...oint ................................................... 396 QUESTIONS OF WAR .......................................................................... ... is ethical; rape is unethical, rape to avenge a social wrong is ethical. War is unethical, but this war is ethical. Abortion is unethical, denying ... ... fact that scholars aren‘t certain that Homer actually existed or that the war in the Iliad actually took place. Was it more of a conglomeration of 3... ...ow what God wants in terms of contraception, cloning, stem cell research, war, capital punishment, suicide bombing, controlling the Hamas, eliminati... ...ind, that God exists, that intelligence can be measured, that there was a Trojan War, that Moses existed, that there is a most effective way to make... ...ns cannot be answered because we don‘t have all the evidence. Was there a Trojan horse? How was Tutankhamen injured? What were the actual missing lin... ...‘t that how most history has been written? Look at Homer‘s history of the Trojan wars. Did Agamemnon, Achilles or Hector actually live? Was there eve... ...an wars. Did Agamemnon, Achilles or Hector actually live? Was there ever a Trojan horse? Was Achilles impervious to injuries except for his heel? God...

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...Book I The Trojans Reach Carthage Book II The Fall of Troy Book III The Trojans Sail for Italy Book IV The Tragedy of Dido Book V The Funeral Games Book VI The Visit to the Underwo...

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... called „baby boomers‟. There are so many of them. After the Second World War the fertility rate went up to 3.8 during the twenty years after the war... ...nally youthful. It reminds me of Homer‟s recounting the Greek myth of the Trojan Tithonus who was granted eternal life by Zeus. He didn‟t die, but h... ... been our major customer. Both air surveillance and ground work. The Iraq War ruined the American public‟s tolerance for real soldiers driving mined ... ...oads and being shot at while making door to door searches. Maybe the next war will be our robots against their robots. So we will have even less nee... ...rch tells them.” —“When there is insecurity in a society, due to war, poverty, depression or a threat to the „manhood‟ of a significant per... ...te felt was in its interests. You could still conscript youths to fight a war they didn‟t approve of, even if it interfered with their right to life...