Who can forget the tales of Troy? The legendary beauty of Helen of Sparta who, upon
falling in love with Prince Paris of Troy fled her husband, King Menalaus of Sparta.
Their love sparked war! Not just between Troy and Sparta, but allying the individual
city states of Greece. The king of each city state having sworn to defend the husband of
the beautiful Helen should such a thing occur. Joined, Greece launched a thousand ships
to sail against Troy which stood undefeated behind its high, thick walls and lead by the
fearless Prince Hector, Paris' older brother. All over not the beauty of Helen, or the
cuckolding of King Menalaus, Helen's husband, but the vanity of three Olympian Goddess
and a Golden Apple and that was really where it all started.
(See the Mythology story The Trail of Paris link)
What followed was a ten year war chronicled in the saga, the Iliad, written by Homer.
Another version, a trilogy of Troy, by Euripides, possibly the ancient world's equal to
our Star War's.
In both works the Gods and Goddess of Olympus played chess with the lives of the
mortals on an Earthly chess board. One day on the side of the Greeks, the next of the
Trojans. In the end it was the deceit of the Greek's Wooden Horse that stealthily gained
entrance through the impregnable walls of Troy leading to the defeat and enslavement of
the Trojan people.
Two classical story tellers recount this story and the further saga's of the fates and
adventures of the heroes on both sides after the war. Both accounts are Greek tragedies
- I preferred a little Happily Ever After Ending - to at least one previously tragic
ending.
See the review page for the top notch reviews Trojan Gold received in the short period
it was previously available.
falling in love with Prince Paris of Troy fled her husband, King Menalaus of Sparta.
Their love sparked war! Not just between Troy and Sparta, but allying the individual
city states of Greece. The king of each city state having sworn to defend the husband of
the beautiful Helen should such a thing occur. Joined, Greece launched a thousand ships
to sail against Troy which stood undefeated behind its high, thick walls and lead by the
fearless Prince Hector, Paris' older brother. All over not the beauty of Helen, or the
cuckolding of King Menalaus, Helen's husband, but the vanity of three Olympian Goddess
and a Golden Apple and that was really where it all started.
(See the Mythology story The Trail of Paris link)
What followed was a ten year war chronicled in the saga, the Iliad, written by Homer.
Another version, a trilogy of Troy, by Euripides, possibly the ancient world's equal to
our Star War's.
In both works the Gods and Goddess of Olympus played chess with the lives of the
mortals on an Earthly chess board. One day on the side of the Greeks, the next of the
Trojans. In the end it was the deceit of the Greek's Wooden Horse that stealthily gained
entrance through the impregnable walls of Troy leading to the defeat and enslavement of
the Trojan people.
Two classical story tellers recount this story and the further saga's of the fates and
adventures of the heroes on both sides after the war. Both accounts are Greek tragedies
- I preferred a little Happily Ever After Ending - to at least one previously tragic
ending.
See the review page for the top notch reviews Trojan Gold received in the short period
it was previously available.
WAR BEFORE TROJAN GOLD
TROJAN WAR
TROJAN WAR
Trojan Gold - excerpts