There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy ( note the similarity with early Greek Wilion, later Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy ).

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

* Linda Nagy, aka Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers ( for linking with computers ) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime series by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss

A 2004 film version of Troy has Achilles slaying Hector following a duel, whereas in the Iliad it is rather different.

Hoplite warfare has been portrayed ( with varying accuracy ) in several films including Troy, The 300 Spartans and 300.

The devastating volcanic eruption of Thera has become the most famous single event in the Aegean before the fall of Troy.

Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

Its follower Troy VIIa, destroyed by fire at some point during the 1180s BC, was long considered a poorer city, but since the excavation campaign of 1988 it has risen to the most likely candidate.

Troy VII has been identified with the Hittite Wilusa, the probable origin of the Greek Ἴλιον, and is generally ( but not conclusively ) identified with Homeric Troy.

Confusingly, 617 Patroclus was named before the Greece / Troy rule was devised, and a Greek name thus appears in the Trojan node ; the Greek node also has one " misplaced " asteroid, 624 Hektor, named after a Trojan hero.

Monmouth's main railway station, known as Monmouth Troy, was a coal distribution depot and a base for heavy goods vehicles for many years after its closure as a part of the rail network, but the building has now been dismantled and re-erected at Winchcombe railway station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

In addition to housing many Alabama government agencies, Montgomery has a large military presence due to Maxwell Air Force Base ; public universities Alabama State University, Troy University ( Montgomery campus ), and Auburn University at Montgomery ; private colleges / universities Faulkner University and Huntingdon College ; high-tech manufacturing, including Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama ; and cultural attractions such as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

The history of the Troy class of boat has been set down by Marcus Lewis Lewis also builds boats and has a small history of the Fowey River class of boat.

In recent years local contemporary country music, featuring much crossover with popular music, has enjoyed considerable popularity in Australia ; notable musicians of this genre include David Hudson, John Williamson, Gina Jeffreys, Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, Felicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers.

According to Troy Dunniway, former Westwood developer who has also worked on Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, " A player controls hundreds of units, dozens of buildings and many different events that are all happening simultaneously.

Pausanias describes a painting of Iphis, Diomede and Briseis admiring Helen's beauty as the latter has been brought back to the Greek camp from the sacked Troy.

In the Epic Cycle that revolved around the Trojan War, Tithonus, who has travelled east from Troy into Assyria and founded Susa, is bribed to send his son Memnon to fight at Troy with a golden grapevine.

* Based on the medieval legend, Jean Lemaire de Belges's Illustrations de Gaule et Singularités de Troie ( 1510 – 12 ) has Astyanax survive the fall of Troy and arrive in Western Europe.

Andromache has been taken prisoner in Epirus by Neoptolemus ( Pyrrhus ) who is due to be married to Hermione, the only daughter of the Spartan king Menelaus and Helen of Troy.

Yet another tradition has it that when the Achaeans, en route to Troy at the beginning of the war, came to the island of Tenedos, Achilles angered Apollo by killing King Tenes, allegedly the god's son.

Troy cannot have been Asagarth, Snorri realizes, the reason being that the Æsir in Asaland were unsettled by the military activities of the Romans ; that is, of the Byzantine Empire.

Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

The Trojan War is supposed by many to have occurred at the height of the Mycenaean civilization ( see discussion of Troy VII ), roughly the point at which this palace appears to have been abandoned.

Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.

Schliemann's first interest of a classical nature seems to have been the location of Troy.

Others, such as Troy and Bjarmaland, having once been considered legendary, are now known to have existed.

Van Buren had been active in politics from at least the age of 17 when he attended a party convention in Troy, New York where he worked to secure the Congressional nomination for John Van Ness.

She had been brought up by Blanche Herbert Lady Troy.

A late date is implied for the Trojan War, which would, in that case, have been against Troy VIIa after all.

She draws comparisons with Thetis ' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis, which presents a strikingly similar relationship — that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon ; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eros and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.

* c. 1279 BC — Troy VI, speculated to be the city mentioned in Homer's Iliad, is presumed to have been destroyed by Greek armies.

Phoenix was said to have died on his way back from Troy and to have been buried by Neoptolemus either in Eion, Macedonia, or in Trachis, Thessaly.

Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.

Taken together, the list of suitors matches well with the captains in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad ; however, some of the names may have been placed in the list of Helen's suitors simply because they went to Troy.

These elms grew to be the tallest in the known world ; but when their topmost branches saw far off the ruins of Troy, they immediately withered, so great still was the bitterness of the hero buried below, who had been loved by Laodamia and slain by Hector.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Critics have long taken as self-referential a passage in the Odyssey describing a blind bard, Demodocus, in the court of the Phaeacian king, who recounts stories of Troy to the shipwrecked Odysseus.

The ancient Greeks thought that the Trojan War was a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern-day Turkey near the Dardanelles.

The Pushkin Museum is still a main depositary of Troy's fabulous gold looted from Troy by the German archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann and taken by the Soviet Army ( Red Army ) from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

Helen was taken away from Menelaus by Paris of Troy during a visit.

As Troy could not be taken regardless of the efforts that were made, ever new conditions were added by the seers as to what was necessary to do in order to take the city.

So, in the same way as before it had been declared that Troy could not be taken without Achilles, now it was prophesied that Troy could not be taken if Neoptolemus ( Achilles's son ) would not come and fight.

Together with Aethilla and Medesicaste, she was taken captive after the sack of Troy and set fire to the Greek ships during their stay on the Italian coast.

By the time Theseus returned to Athens, the Dioscuri ( Helen's twin brothers Castor and Pollux ) had taken Helen back to Sparta ; they had taken captive Aethra and Physadeia, the sister of Pirithous, who became handmaidens of Helen and later followed her to Troy.

On April 23, 2001, Camby's mother and two sisters were taken hostage in their own home by Hartford resident Troy Crooms.

In fact, given the liberty of Latin word order, " of Troy " might be taken to modify " arms " or " the man ", but it is not the custom to interpret the word that way.

Singer Rio Reiser usually told journalists the name was taken from a description by pioneer archeologist Heinrich Schliemann of what he saw when he first came to the site of ancient Troy.

A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy, Tithonus.

The tales told in the Cycle are recounted by other ancient sources, notably Virgil's Aeneid ( book 2 ) which recounts the sack of Troy from a Trojan perspective ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( books 13 – 14 ), which describes the Greeks ' landing at Troy ( from the Cypria ) and the judgment of Achilles ' arms ( Little Iliad ); Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which narrates the events after Achilles ' death up until the end of the war ; and the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance taken by his son Orestes ( the Nostoi ) are the subject of later Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus's Oresteian trilogy.

This was taken up into other Greek myths, such as Heracles, who rescued the princess Hesione of Troy from a similar sea monster.

Euripides's play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves.

Hecuba in particular lets it be known that Troy had been her home for her entire life, only to see herself as an old grandmother watching the burning of Troy, the death of her husband, her children, and her grandchildren before she will be taken as a slave to Odysseus.