The Trojan War
Helen & Paris
Perhaps kanske you remember kommer ihåg the story about the goddesses' gudinnornas beauty contest skönhetstävlning?
- Three goddesses tried to bribe muta the judge dömaren.
- Hera, the queen of the world, offered him wealth rikedom and power makt.
- Athena, goddess of wisdom and war krig, offered him wisdom vishet.
- Aphrodite, goddess of love, lust, and beauty, offered erbjud him the love of the most beautiful vacker woman in the world.
The judge was a young man named Paris. He was prince in Troy, a town in Turkey Turkiet. He accepted Aphrodite's bribe, and picked her as the most beautiful goddess.
The most beautiful woman was Helen. But she was already married redan gift — to a king in Greece Grekland.
Prince Paris took Helen away from her husband man, and that meant betydde war. All the Greek kings sent their ships skepp, perhaps a thousand all together. Helen's beauty launched sjösatte a thousand ships into war. At least according to enligt the myth.
The Horse
The war went on for ten years. The Greeks just couldn't break through the solid city walls.
Finally, the Greeks came up with a trick knep. They hoped hopades the trick would win the war.
They constructed (made) a huge wooden horse, and hid a few soldiers soldater inside. Then they sailed away.
The Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy (prize). But that night the soldiers in the horse came out and opened the city gates stäket. They let in the rest of the Greek solidiers who had only pretended to sail away. The Greeks destroyed the city of Troy, which ended the war.
Achilles
One of the heros hjältar of the Trojan War was a young man named Achilles. He was a hero — more than an ordinary man but less than a god.
Achilles' mother was a sea goddess. She was told that he would be a great hero but that he was destined ödesbestämd to die young. And of course, as a mother she wanted to protect her son. As a sea goddess, she knew that the water of the river Styx would shield skydda him. So she dipped doppde him into the river Styx, holding him by his heel häl.
The water of the river did indeed shield skydda Achilles, making him invincible oövervinnlig. Achilles fought in wars krigade, and could not be killed — until an arrow pil struck his heel häl, which was not shielded, and he died. Nowadays, another word for a person's weak svag spot is "Achilles' heal."
The Odyssey
The books entitled (named) The Iliad and The Odyssey are Europe's first books. They have been famous for centuries. They have been filmed many times.
In The Odyssey, the hero Odysseus has many adventures which delay försenar his return home from the Trojan War. The word "odyssey," meaning long journey, comes from this story. In Swedish: odyssé, irrfärd.
Troy is no myth
For centuries århundraden people thought that Troy was a mythical city. But then an amateur amatör acheologist found ruins ruiner (rester efter mycket gamla byggnader) of the real city of Troy. So now we know that there was such a city. There probably were wars. But was there a beauty named Helen? A prince named Paris? A hero named Achilles? The answer is still in the realm of hör till mythology.
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