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T to Theban Plays Thebe to Thrasymedes Thriambos to Tyrtaeus
A ten year war that ended with the destruction of the city of Troy and the death of thousands of Achaean (Achaean) men.
The story of the war was told most eloquently in The Iliad by Homer and elaborated in the (mostly lost) Epic Cycle; the actual battle for Troy has been tentatively placed at 1250 BCE.
The cause and perpetuation of the war was blamed on the Olympians; Aphrodite (goddess of Love) enchanted Helen of Argos and Alexandros (Paris) of Troy; Helen took her dowry and fled with Alexandros to Troy; Helen’s husband, Menelaos (Menelaus), and his brother Agamemnon, organized a confederation of Greeks and laid siege to Troy; after ten years of bitter fighting, the Greeks finally gained entrance to Troy and killed or enslaved all the citizens.
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