Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Paris (mythology) Paris ( Ancient Greek: Πάρις ), also known as Alexander ( Ἀλέξανδρος, Aléxandros ), is a mythological figure in the story of the Trojan War. He appears in numerous Greek legends and works of Ancient Greek literature such as the Iliad. In myth, he is prince of Troy, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, and ...
Diomedes ( / ˌdaɪəˈmiːdiːz / [ 1]) or Diomede ( / ˈdaɪəmiːd /; [ 1] Greek: Διομήδης, translit. Diomēdēs, lit. "god-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus") is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War . He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal ...
This is a list of mythological characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. Map of Homeric Greece Map of the Troad (Troas) Armies. Greek armies*
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy). In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ə s / ih-NEE-əs, [1] Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). [2]
Box office. $3.2 million (US rentals) [ 2] Helen of Troy is a 1956 epic historical drama film, based on Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash. The music score was composed by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Harry Stradling Sr, who ...
Troilus is an adolescent boy or young man, the son of Hecuba, queen of Troy. As he is so beautiful, Troilus is taken to be the son of the god Apollo. [8] However, Hecuba's husband, King Priam, treats him as his own much-loved child. A prophecy says that Troy will not fall if Troilus lives to the age of twenty.
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans ( Greeks ) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus , king of Sparta .
More than 6,000 Americans died taking Iwo Jima and some 17,000 were wounded. The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia, was inspired by the iconic 1945 photograph of six ...