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.

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

He says he turned down an offer to appear in Helen of Troy ( 1955 ) to act at Stratford-upon-Avon.

In 1821, Emma Willard founded the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York, which was the first American educational institution to offer young women a college education equal to that given to young men.

Thus did Agamemnon, army commander and great-grandson of Tantalus, offer his eldest daughter Iphigenia to goddess Diana ( in Greek known as Artemis ) to ensure favourable winds for the voyage from Avlida to Troy, where he intended to wage war against Troy.

Aeneas was then enveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.

The sons of Bor then constructed Asgard ( to be identified with Troy, Snorri insists in section 9 ) as a home for the Æsir, who were divinities.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

In 1991 the Cowboys replaced offensive coordinator Dave Shula with Norv Turner ; the Cowboys raced to a 6-5 start then defeated the previously-unbeaten Redskins despite injury to Troy Aikman.

He then begins to tell the story of his return from Troy.

Rockwell International also spun off its automotive division as a publicly traded company, Meritor Automotive, based in Troy, Michigan, which then merged with Arvin Industries to form Arvin Meritor.

Troy Aikman then threw two consecutive incompletions, and the Cowboys were forced to punt again.

On the other hand, if the Tyrrhenian name came from an incursion of sea peoples or later migrants, then it might well be related to the name of Troy, the city of towers in that case.

A collision with the Hittite empire over their sometime dependency at a then strategic location, Troy, was to be expected.

Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.

After Paris's death, his brother Deiphobus married Helen and was then murdered by Menelaus in the sack of Troy.

Heracles then bestowed the government of Troy on Priam.

Iphigenia realizes that if she dies, then the men can sail to Troy and win and protect their own women.

If the men did not get to Troy to defeat the Trojans then all the Greek women would be raped and possibly killed.

Prior to sailing off to war against Troy, Agamemnon had angered the goddess Artemis because he had killed a sacred deer in a sacred grove, and had then boasted that he was a better hunter than she was.

Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could acquire the poisonous arrows of Heracles ( then in Philoctetes ' possession ); steal the Palladium ( which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy ); and put Achilles ' son in the war.

Odysseus devised a trick to draw Achilles out of his disguise as a girl ; Diomedes and Odysseus then took Achilles to Troy.

Helenus then sent Hector to the city of Troy to tell their mother about what was happening.

This first night mission demonstrates another side of these two kings where they employed stealth and treachery along with might and bravery but more importantly fulfills one of the prophecies required for the fall of Troy: that Troy will not fall while the horses of Rhesus feed upon its plains ( According to another version of the story, it had been foretold by an oracle that if the stallions of Rhesus were ever to drink from the river Scamander, which cuts across the Trojan plain, then the city of Troy would never fall.

Diomedes then climbed the wall of Troy and entered the city.

The Bibliotheca places these events before the expedition of the Greeks against Troy, while Hyginus states that Diomedes, when he heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of his grandfather Oeneus, hastened back and expelled Agrius, who then committed suicide ; according to others, Agrius and his sons were all slain by Diomedes.

Troy announces she is not going to the funeral when Woody calls her down.

At the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis becalmed the sea and stopped the journey until an oracle came and said they could win the goddess ' heart by sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter.

Further excavation of the Troy site by others indicated that the level he named the Troy of the Iliad was not that, although they retain the names given by Schliemann.

Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked " Troy and Ilium " just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon ( 108 ).

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

After they took the Greek cities of Asia from Troy to the Maiandros river, Philip was assassinated and his campaign was suspended while his heir consolidated his control of Macedonia and the rest of Greece.

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.

During their four-year partnership, they wrote five comedies – Dulcy ( 1921 ), To the Ladies ( 1922 ), Merton of the Movies ( 1922 ), The Deep Tangled Wildwood ( 1923 ) and Beggar on Horseback ( 1924 ) – and also co-directed and contributed sketches to the 1922 revue The ' 49ers, collaborated on the book to the musical comedy Helen of Troy, New York ( 1923 ), and wrote both the book and lyrics for another musical comedy, Be Yourself ( 1924 ).

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.

At least three Ancient Greek authors denied that Helen ever went to Troy ; instead, they suggested, Helen stayed in Egypt during the duration of the Trojan War.

* In the movie English dubbed version of Kung Fu Hustle, The Beast asks if they are the fated Lovers, to which the Landlord and Landlady refer to themselves as Paris and Helen of 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.

In the 2011 draft, they traded Troy Brouwer to the Washington Capitals for the 2011 26th overall pick and Brian Campbell to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Rostislav Olesz.

In the Superbike World Championship they were third in rider's championship in season 2000 with rider Troy Corser, and third in manufacturers points and fourth in rider points both in season 2001 with Troy Corser and in 2002 with Noriyuki Haga.

Troy Goodfellow counters this by saying that the problem is not that real-time strategy games are lacking in strategy ( he says attrition is a form of strategy ), rather it is that they too often have the same strategy: produce faster than you consume.

" The ancients sometimes considered his work with distaste as a lecherous and corrupting influence but they also responded sympathetically to the pathos he sought to evoke — his account of Menelaus's failure to kill Helen of Troy, under the spell of her beauty, was valued by ancient critics above Eurypides's account of the same story in his play Andromache.

Quintus Smyrnaeus explains more fully than pseudo-Apollodorus how Penthesilea came to be at Troy: Penthesilea had killed Hippolyta with a spear when they were hunting deer ; this accident caused Penthesilea so much grief that she wished only to die, but, as a warrior and an Amazon, she had to do so honorably and in battle.

Later, Anius became a priest of Apollo and gave aid to Aeneas and his retinue when they were travelling from Troy to the future site of Rome.

When the Greeks landed on Delos while on their way to Troy, Anius prophesized that the Trojan War would not be won until the tenth year, and insisted that they stay with him for nine years, promising that his daughters would supply them with aliments during that period.

Later, Anius, an old friend of Anchises, gave aid to him, his son Aeneas, and his retinue when they were fleeing from Troy and en route to the future site of Rome.

He was wounded by the Achaeans when they were coming to sack Troy and bring back Helen to Sparta.

Telephus ' companion Parthenopaeus was destined to die at the gates of Thebes, but Telephus was destined to rule foreign lands and fight his fellow Greeks before they reached Troy.

Moreover, Paris and Helen had stopped in Mysia on their way to Troy, and had asked Telephus to fight off the Achaeans should they come.