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The Trojan War is an event, perhaps inspired by comparatively modest historical events, that is very important in Greek Mythology . Various parts of the war are treated in many works of Greek Literature . The two most famous works are the '' Iliad '' and the '' Odyssey '' of Homer . The ''Iliad'' relates 50 days during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, while the ''Odyssey'' describes the journey home of Odysseus , one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the story were narrated in a Cycle Of Epic Poems , which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war and its aftermath provided material for Greek Tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid . During this ten-year long war, the city of Troy (Illium), located in Asia Minor (modern Turkey), was Besieged by the armies of the Achaeans ( Mycenaean Greeks ), after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus , king of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon . The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena , Hera and Aphrodite , after Eris , the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a Golden Apple , sometimes known as the Apple Of Discord , marked "for the fairest". The goddesses went to Paris, who Judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen , the most beautiful of all women, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon , king of Mycenae , and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax , and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse . The Achaeans mercilessly slaughtered the Trojans and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas , one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to Italy . |
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