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 ).

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.

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.

Trojans are thought to have been captured into their orbits during the early stages of the Solar System's formation or slightly later, during the migration of giant planets.

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.

The Trojans press the Greeks into their camp over the ditch and wall and would have laid hands on the ships, but Agamemnon rallies the Greeks in person.

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.

The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.

A total of 5, 253 Jupiter Trojans have been found.

Members of the sports teams, the Trojans, have won 94 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation, and 361 NCAA individual championships, ranking them second in the nation.

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.

She is filled with self-distaste and regret for what she has caused ; by the end of the war, the Trojans have come to hate her.

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.

" Nestor responded, " Son of Tydeus, though Hector say that you are a coward the Trojans and Dardanians will not believe him, nor yet the wives of the mighty warriors whom you have laid low.

However, Hector does take his advice to regroup in Book XIII, after the Argives have done tremendous damage to the Trojans.

The Trojans have sent many players to the collegiate level in the last 15 years including Rocky Calmus ( Oklahoma / Tennessee Titans ), Sean Mahan ( Notre Dame / Tampa Bay Buccaneers ), Jason Lohr ( Nebraska ), Jason Carter ( Oklahoma ), Garrett Mills ( Tulsa / Minnesota Vikings ), Chase Beeler ( Stanford ), Bryan Pickryl ( Texas ), Kejuan Jones ( Oklahoma ), Jay Henry ( West Virginia ), Phillip Dillard ( Nebraska / New York Giants ), Corey Callans ( Oklahoma ), Jake Laptad ( Kansas ), Cory Dorris ( Tulsa ), Chris Adkins ( Tulsa ), Gabe Lynn ( Oklahoma ), Tramaine Thompson ( Kansas State ).

When the city was destroyed by the Achaeans at the end of the Trojan War, a group of Trojans were said to have escaped and, after a long journey across the Mediterranean Sea, landed in Sicily.

This was said to have been in recognition of the Elymians ' claim of Trojan ancestry, which was seen as making them cousins of the Roman people, who also claimed to have been descended from the Trojans.

The Trojans win most of their battles but are conscious that the Gauls have the advantage of numbers, so go back to their ships and sail for Britain, then called Albion.

All but Luwian were spoken only in the Iron Age, after roughly 1000 BC ; thus neither the Lukka of the time of the Sea Peoples nor the Lycians cited among the allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War could have spoken any Lycian.

Seeing a man named Aeneas, Paris hands him the Sword of Troy, repeating his father's words that the Trojans will have a future as long as the sword is in Trojan hands.

The snakes were sent by Poseidon ( although Athena or Apollo have also been suggested ) and were interpreted by the Trojans as proof that the horse was a sacred object.

The Homeric name for the Lydians was " Meiones ", cited among the allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War, and from this name " Maeonia " and " Maeonians " derive and while these Bronze Age terms have sometimes been used as alternatives for Lydia and the Lydians, nuances have also been brought between them.

Carpenter saw this as evidence of the possibility that Troy was not the name of a town at all, but rather the name of an area or district inhabited by the Trojans.

Located at the southeast corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street in the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles, California, United States, it is right across the street from the campus and near the Shrine Auditorium and is the home of the USC Trojans basketball and USC volleyball teams.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

According to the Iliad, Hector did not approve of war between the Greeks and the Trojans.

He promises that no Greek will engage in combat for 11 days, but on the 12th day of peace, the mighty war between the Greeks and the Trojans would resume.

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.

Virgil describes the actual encounter between Sinon and the Trojans:

When war broke out between Aeneas and Turnus, Turnus tried to persuade Diomedes to aid them in the war against the Trojans.

In the section known as the Catalogue of Trojans, they are mentioned between mentions of the Hellespontine cities and the Thracians of south-eastern Europe ( i. e. on the Hellespontine border of Thrace ).

During the War between the Latins and the Trojans ( along with several other Trojan allies, including King Evander's Arcadians ), Turnus proves himself to be hot-headed but brave.

Hiding her daughter in the woods and arousing the womenfolk of the Latins, she managed to stir up the war between the Latins ( now allied with Turnus ) and Aeneas ' Trojans ( allied with the Etruscans and King Evander's people ).

* 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 lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.

Hilary Mackie has detected in the Iliad a consistent differentiation between representations in Greek of Achaean and Trojan speech, where Achaeans repeatedly engage in public, ritualized abuse: " Achaeans are proficient at blame, while Trojans perform praise poetry.

Subsequent scenes depict a back-and-forth combat between Trojans and Scythians.

The first collegiate football game played in the Kingdome was between the Washington State Cougars and USC Trojans, when Ricky Bell set the NCAA single-game rushing yardage record ( later broken by Reuben Mayes of Washington State ).< ref >

A first down measurement during a game between the USC Trojans football | USC Trojans and the California Golden Bears football | California Golden Bears.

In 2002, 2, 794 fans attended a women's volleyball match between UCSB and the USC Trojans in which the 9th ranked Gauchos upset USC 3 games to 1.

Homer makes a clear distinction between the Trojans and the Dardanoi.

During a battle between the Greeks and Trojans, Diomedes is impressed by the bravery of a mysterious young man and demands to know his identity.

The backdrop is a friendly match between Arsenal and The Trojans, a fictitious amateur side ; one of the Trojans ' players drops dead during the match, and when it is revealed he has been poisoned, suspicion falls on his teammates as well as his former mistress.

The Trojans ' body doubles on the pitch were players from Brentford, who wore a special striped kit for the occasion, during the First Division fixture between the two sides on 6 May 1939 ; this was the last match of the 1938 – 39 season and Arsenal's last official league fixture before the outbreak of the Second World War.