So, after Hector's death the war kept going for 10 years until they pulled the horse trick...

what are they gonna do? swim home? lol

Apollo didn't show up to help out Hector. It was a sunny day out, and it reflected off his armor, blinding Achilles for like a second.
>omg the gods literally intervened

So...they did it for free?

Any kino examples?

In the actual Iliad all the action with both Achilles and the horse takes place at the end of those ten years.

defect, desert

And you know this how?

that's wrong, faggot
during the events of the Iliad they've already been fighting for almost 10 years
it takes place at the end of the war
start with the greeks zoomie mongoloid

Well obviously the gods didn't really intervene, but you can interpret the gods intervention as the heroes portrayed embodying the spirit of each god, Basically they are living up the archetype of that god, when Diomedes became possessed by the god Ares, it's basically saying he was the epitome of what the Greeks aspired to be in a warrior.

Don't read the Iliad like a novel, read it like a religious text or a philosophical treatise that uses a narrative to promote the ideal values of Greek heroism.

>try to walk back to greece
>get raped by barbarians out in the wilderness

>Don't read the Iliad like a novel, read it like a religious text or a philosophical treatise that uses a narrative to promote the ideal values of Greek heroism.
is there anything more cringe than attempting to fit ancient poems into a post-modernist theoretical frame?
kys my dude

could defect to troy. either way a bunch of soldiers travelling together, even in semi small numbers, seems very unlikely to get mugged by savages. theyre trained military with weapons

ITT: GRRM-tier retards
>but what were the achaeans tax policies?

But thats exactly what the purpose of oral epic poetry was, it was a way to encode the morals and ideals of a society within a narrative. Read Beowulf, the Iliad and others, it is all about inspiring the audience to the ideal moral code of the society.

It's a huge fucking stretch to conclude that the ruins we found were actually Troy or that the Illiad was based on then. A HUGE stretch.

It's much more likely that it was simply made up. But Troy sells well and archeologists and historians have to sell themselves too.
Just look at how many digging sites were promoted as Troy at some point or another in the past 50 years. 'Another random city of no historical importance' does not generate research money.

You could say the 47 Ronin embodies a moral ideal but everyone agrees that one really happened.

That's completely wrong, the achaeans were raiding the coasts of the Trojan empire for ten years and the actual pitched battle and siege only lasted a few months.

Except it's not a huge stretch you absolute mong, literally go read even the simplest fucking wikipedia page on Troy.

Except it is you flaming faggot. Read any fucking archeology paper you scum.

Don't be mad because you were ripped off when you paid 50 bucks to visit the Troy site in Bumfuckistan.

>i read it on wikipedia so its true
Yeah sure buddy.

Good tax policy

>What were they doing for 10 years?
getting dubs

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Very nice

it took them ten years to get dubs while I get trips in seconds

for loot

The Iliad is explicitly a fictional story user

>illiad was conceived centuries after the supposed siege of troy
>illiad was passed on orally for centuries
>somehow some people still think the information is accurate enough to claim a ruin that slightly resembles what is depicted in surviving copies of the illiad to be the real troy

fuck all of you cocksuckers, long stretch is what I do to my penis.
Troy existed, so did the 10 years conflict, it was an epic war not only between men and the gods.
fuck your "facts"

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It was a myth based on the Sea Peoples invasion of the Hittite empire during the bronze age collapse

shut it

Umm, your whitewashing is really problematic, sweetie. If you wanna talk about history post more authentic image next time.

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What became of Troy though? How long did it last under Agamemnon?

They sacked and burned it user, it was leveled and it's people scattered. The achaeans took the children and babies and through them from the walls and took the women as sex slaves

Threw**

Also this was a pre classical Greek people, they didn't have the hoplite style you think of, they were bronze age warriors like this

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>american ((EDUCATION))

>when Diomedes became possessed by the god Ares, it's basically saying he was the epitome of what the Greeks aspired to be in a warrior
except he wasn't possessed at all and Athena filled him with strength of god like power to injure Ares

did you read the fucking book at all?

Theye were promised whatever loot they could take if they win.

>some people
Were talking real archeologists here, not internet armchair generals.
There is real evidence that has came out in the last 3 decades to pinpoint the real site of Troy\Illion.

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It's pretty explicitly clear that Troy never really existed and the Trojan war never actually happened. It's a mythological tale

Cringe communist tranny.

most part of those 10 years is achaeans just fucking around
Iliad is at the 9th year

>desert
>in a desert

cum on each other

>Athena filled him with strength of god like power to injure Ares

Hardly when Kratos killed them both long ago.

This is the most beautiful day of your life. Like 999 other heroes, you chose freely to give yourself to me. Your sacrifice completes my sanctuary of [1000] testicles.

AXON! AXON! AXON! AXON!

its still incredibly questionable but Troy 6 still seems the likely ruins

Prove it's mythical Troy and not a Hittite city

>Trojan war
It's litterally made up. It's mythical, as was the city of troy and all the characters. Mythical scenarios like this were created as fables and the story has many morals in it.

read my post you cretin
>still incredibly questionably
>seems likely
Im not putting my name on the line here. the BEST proof of it relating to the myth is Hittite tablets mentioning Alexandros. We both know this

No, you flithy barbarian, the war went on for 10 years, then Hector dies, and then they do the horse trick.

the entire point of the story is doing it for glory

There was a city named Wilusa, aka Ilium, that was ruled by an Alaksandu, aka Paris-Alexander, that lied in western Asia Minor and fought a war against Ahhiyawa, aka the Achaeans.

I'm not saying that the city ruins near Hisarlik are explicitly the same place as described in Iliad, but the story definitely has historical basis.

Aka treasures and pussy.

Jacking off to ancient incest hentai

No, it took place in the last year of the war. After the war, Odysseus spent 10 years trying to get back home.

This is the age of the citizen army, these are wealthy men who don’t need a wage and already live off the land unlike later levy/professional armies.

This took place during Mycenaean Greece though, got passed down orally and was written by the Achaeans

first thing wagie wonders about how those armys used to work

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Did the ancient greek world have their own version of Jody?

false