Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido ( also known as Elissa ), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples.

After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.

Hector chooses to remain outside the gates of Troy and face Achilles, partially because had he listened to Polydamas and retreated with his troops the previous night, Achilles would not have killed so many Trojans.

Protesilaus had killed many Trojans but was killed by Hector in most versions of the story, though others list Aeneas, Achates, or Ephorbus as his slayer.

Agamemnon, unwilling to undertake the invidious duty of deciding between the two competitors, referred the dispute to the decision of the Trojan prisoners, inquiring of them which of the two heroes had done most harm to the Trojans.

By 1938, 11 Trojans had been detected.

I have said elsewhere, that in sight of the pyramids, on the other side in Arabia, and near the stone quarries from which they are built, is a very rocky mountain, called the Trojan mountain ; beneath it there are caves, and near the caves and the river a village called Troy, an ancient settlement of the captive Trojans who had accompanied Menelaus and settled there.

Bacchylides relates how Achilles ’ inaction spurred the Trojans to false hope, and how their swollen pride led them to be destroyed at the hands of the men they thought they had vanquished.

He pretended to have deserted the Greeks and, as a Trojan captive, told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensure their safe voyage home.

Only the Trojans had watchfires ; they, therefore, were awake and kept each other to their duty as sentinels ; but the allies who have come from other places were asleep and left it to the Trojans to keep guard.

Diomedes told them he had fought enough Trojans in his lifetime, and urged Turnus that it was best to make peace with Aeneas than to fight the Trojans.

Other sources claim that Diomedes had one more meeting with his old enemy Aeneas where he gave the Palladium back to the Trojans.

The Achaeans, according to Homer, had set up their camp near its mouth, and their battles with the Trojans were fought on the plain of Scamander.

He scolded Hector in the Iliad ( Book 5, lines 471 – 492 ) claiming that he left all the hard fighting to the allies of Troy and not to the Trojans themselves, and made a point of saying that the Lycians had no reason to fight the Greeks, or no real reason to hate them, but because he was a faithful ally to Troy he would do so and fight his best anyway.

Tenes fought in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans and was slain by Achilles, even though Thetis had previously warned her son against doing so, for Tenes ' death would be avenged by Apollo.

According to Servius, this woman Egesta or Segesta was sent by her father, Hippotes or Ipsostratus, to Sicily, that she might not be devoured by the monsters, which infested the territory of Troy, and which had been sent into the land, because the Trojans had refused to reward Poseidon and Apollo for having built the walls of their city.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

The Greeks identified them as descendants of the Trojans ; Thucydides claimed that their ancestors had been refugees from Troy.

In August, the Royal Laotian Air Force received its first four T-28 Trojans that had been adapted for counter-insurgency warfare.

After Brutus, a descendant of the Trojan prince Aeneas, had been exiled from Italy and liberated the enslaved Trojans in Greece, he encountered Corineus and his people, who joined him in his travels.

By chance, he is spotted by Odysseus and Diomedes while they are on a secret raid to plunder the Trojans.

The 1980 Trojans did a repeat and won the NCS 3A Championship from El Molino on a quagmire Bailey Field in Santa Rosa.

As seen in the first books of the Aeneid, Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed in battle or enslaved when Troy fell.

The Trojans, according to Virgil, disregarded Laocoön's advice and were taken in by the deceitful testimony of Sinon ; in his resulting anger, Laocoön threw his spear at the Horse.

Nearly half of the original Gotham players were members of the disbanded Troy Trojans, whose place in the National League the Gothams inherited.

The Trojans attacked and reached the heroes, who were only saved by an intervention of Athena.

During the next days, however, the Trojans drove the Achaeans back to their camp and were stopped at the Achaean wall by Poseidon.

The next day, though, with Zeus ' help, the Trojans broke into the Achaean camp and were on the verge of setting fire to the Achaean ships.

Alternatively, the Trojans and Pallas Athena were the judges in that, following Nestor's advice, spies were sent to the walls to overhear what was said.

When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, believing the war was over, they " joyfully dragged the horse inside the city ", while they debated what to do with it.

It has also been noted that there is great similarity between the names of the Sea Peoples, which at that time were raiding Egypt, as they are listed by Ramesses III and Merneptah, and of the allies of the Trojans.

The term " Trojan asteroid " is normally understood to specifically mean the Jupiter Trojans since the first Trojans were discovered near Jupiter's orbit and Jupiter currently has by far the most known Trojans.

In 1906 – 1907 two more Jupiter Trojans were found by fellow German astronomer August Kopff ( 624 Hektor and 617 Patroclus ).

The Trojans were thought to have landed in an area between modern Anzio and Fiumicino, southwest of Rome: probably at Laurentum, or in other versions, at Lavinium, a place named for Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus, whom Aeneas married.

Invoking the oath of Tyndareus, Menelaus and Agamemnon raised a fleet of one thousand ships according to legend and went to Troy to secure Helen's return ; the Trojans were recalcitrant, providing a casus belli for the Trojan War.

: What a thing was this, too, which that mighty man wrought and endured in the carven horse, wherein all we chiefs of the Argives were sitting, bearing to the Trojans death and fate!

When Hector dies, she is the third mourner at his funeral, and she says that, of all the Trojans, Hector and Priam alone were always kind to her:

Aeneas encountered harpies on the Strophades as they repeatedly made off with the feast the Trojans were setting.

It was from Tros that the Dardanians were called Trojans and the land named the Troad.

Among the Trojans he killed were Melanippus, Ablerus, Atymnius, Phalces, and Thoon, although Hyginus records that he only killed two Trojans.