How To Use Trojan war In A Sentence
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There is probably no more pertinent a time for a revival of Shakespeare's story of the Trojan war than now.
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The scene on the other side of the cylix is supposed to illustrate an incident of the Trojan War: two warriors, starting out on an expedition, are met and stopped by the god Hermes.
A History of Greek Art
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If you studied ancient history at school at all, you will have learned that the Trojan War began because a non-invitee at Zeus's banquet send an anonymous golden apple in her stead, and three goddeses had an argument about who deserved it most.
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the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad
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Some authors say flourished about A.D. 742; but the learned Ah-ah Foo-foo states that he was a cotemporary of Scharkspyre, the English poet, and flourished about A.D. 1328, some three centuries after the Trojan war instead of before it.
Mark Twain
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Two revolutions have shaped the study of the Trojan War in the last two decades, one in archaeology and the other in epigraphy the study of inscriptions.
The Trojan War
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His brother Menelaus was the husband of Helen, for whose sake the Trojan War was fought.
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Perhaps the most famous legend about Aphrodite concerns the cause of the Trojan War.
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Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, has been waiting many years for his return from the Trojan War.
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I think the timocratic structure of divinity in early Greek myth might be quite a good thing to apply to the tale of Eris, the apple and the Trojan War.
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The old author dreamed that the heroes of the Trojan War were changed by Zeus into the warriors of the mimic strife in order that such renowned exploits should be perpetuated among men forever: rather must we reverse the dream, and apotheosize the powers of the board, that they may appear in the sieges, heroisms, and victories of life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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An ancient port of east-central Greece in Boeotia. According to tradition, it was the embarkation point for the Greek fleet during the Trojan War.
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An island of Turkey in the northeast Aegean Sea south of the Dardanelles. According to tradition, it was the site of a Greek naval station during the Trojan War.
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I love "Leda and the Swan" as a teaching poem; it's devastating, especially the implication that the violence of the rape prefigures and almost predestines the violence of the Trojan War.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The Odyssey describes the return of the Greek hero Odysseus from the Trojan War.
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AEneas; these ideas, I say, and these sentiments, appertained to the polished century of Augustus and not to the epoch or, scene of the Trojan War.
Satyricon
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Whatever historical events underlie the legend of the Trojan War did not occur as depicted here.
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Sadly, "dyte" in this context is merely an abbreviated form of the name Dictys Cretensis, a lesser reteller of the Trojan War.
Languagehat.com: DIGHT.
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Helen is blamed for causing the Trojan War because the Greeks and Trojans were fighting over her.
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During the Iron Age, it was known as Salamis, and its kings traced their ancestry to the Teucer, brother of Ajax, a hero of the Trojan War.
FrontPage Magazine
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According to legend, the Trojan War had its genesis in a dispute between three Greek goddesses.
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But speaking of plays about the Trojan War, I think I'd like to see Tiger at the Gates done in repertory Troilus and Cressida, a compare and contrast between irony and out and out cynicism.
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