The god seems to be related to Appaliunas, a tutelary god of Wilusa ( Troy ) in Asia Minor, but the word is not complete.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

There also is no mention of Troy, which was not far from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire and militarily beyond the reach of the Vikings.

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.

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.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

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.

* In the 1956 epic film Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is played by Robert Douglas.

* In the 2003 miniseries Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed by Rufus Sewell.

* In the 2004 epic war film Troy, Agamemnon is depicted as a ruthless power-mad king played by Brian Cox.

* In the 2011 video game Warriors: Legends of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed as a power-hungry tryant and is the main antagonist.

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.

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.

We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists, directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches ( a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date ); Odysseus ( perhaps spurious ) in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy

In the 10th century Troas is given as a suffragan of Cyzicus and distinct from the famous Troy ( Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 552 ; Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 64 ); it is not known when the city was destroyed and the diocese disappeared.

In Homer's Iliad, the horses of the Myrmidons graze on wild celery that grows in the marshes of Troy, and in Odyssey, there is mention of the meadows of violet and wild celery surrounding the cave of Calypso.

Ajax gives Hector his girdle, which will later be used to attach Hector's corpse to Achilles ' chariot by which he is dragged around the walls of Troy.

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

Priam returns to Troy with the body of his son, and it is given full funeral honors.

* In David Gemmell's Troy trilogy Hektor is seen as a man of peace and would rather breed his horses than go to war but is forced by King Priam to fight for the Hittite empire against the Egytians at the Battle of Kadesh and other conflicts.

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 ).

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

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

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.

Troy (, Ilion, or, Ilios ; and, Troia ; Latin: Trōia and Īlium ; Hittite: Wilusa or Truwisa ; Turkish: Truva ) was a city, both factual and legendary, in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, south of the southwest end of the Dardanelles / Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida.

Portion of the legendary walls of Troy ( VII ), identified as the site of the Trojan War ( ca.

Walls of the excavated city of Troy, supposed center of the legendary Trojan War

* 1225 BC — Birth of legendary Helen of Troy to King Tyndareus of Sparta and his wife Leda.

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (, Menelaos ) was a legendary king of Mycenaean ( pre-Dorian ) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War.

Moreover, as is well-known, the historical Antony and Cleopatra were the prototypes and antitypes for Virgil ’ s Dido and Aeneas: Dido, ruler of the north African city of Carthage, tempts Aeneas, the legendary exemplar of Roman pietas, to forego his task of founding Rome after the fall of Troy.

Wace narrates the founding of Britain by Brutus of Troy to the end of the legendary British history created by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Brutus, or Brute of Troy, is a descendant of the legendary Trojan hero Aeneas, known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Britain.

The book chronicled all the kings of England dating back to the legendary king Brutus, who had come from Troy to start an exploration and a new colony, up to Charles I who was the King when Heywood died.

* Alexander: The legendary prince of Troy – the festival judges can expect better gifts than he ever got if they award first place to The Birds ( line 1104 ).

* Ilion ( Ἴλιον ) or, Latinized, Ilium, an antique name for the legendary city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad

* Brutus of Troy, the legendary founder of London

* Brute of Troy, a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Æneas, known in mediæval British legend as the founder and first king of Britain

Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy.

1190 BC ), and with legendary Troy of the Greek Trojan War cycle ( according to the chronology of Saint Jerome dated to the 1180s BC.

* Ilion ( Ἴλιον ) or, Latinized, Ilium, another name for the legendary city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, the realm was named after the legendary king Locrinus, the oldest son of Brutus of Troy.

It can be interpreted as an elision of the names of Tros and Ilos, the legendary founders of Troy, as a diminutive or pet name " little Tros " or as an elision of Troië ( Troy ) and lyo ( to destroy ).