The Trojan War

The Trojan War

In ancient Greece many epic tales were told about the Trojan War— a conflict between the Achaeans
an alliance of the Greek states) and the city of Troy. The first and most famous of these accounts were the Iliad and Odyssey, both attributed to a single author, known as Homer. Historians concede that these epics were inspired by actual events— sporadic wars between Greece and Troy did occur some five centuries before the works were written— but their characters and plots are works of the imagination. However, the Greeks of Homer’s era would have believed these stories to be true accounts of the heroism of their ancestors.
The Greeks began to write down their epics around the 8th century bce. Like the spoken tales on which they were based, they took the form of narrative poems. These Greek epics have a regular meter—each line is comprised of six basic rhythmic units, and each of these units contains one long and two short syllables. This meter is known as dactylic hexameter,
or more commonly, “epic meter.” Variations on this basic rhythmic pattern give the flexibility needed for poetic composition.

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