Trojan War

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event in Greek mythology mythological war

The Trojan War is a legendary ancient Greek conflict between the city of Troy and a coalition of Greek states, famed for its heroes, divine interventions, and central place in Greek mythology and epic poetry.

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All labels observed (20)

Label	Occurrences
Trojan War canonical	83
Trojan War cycle	10
fall of Troy	8
siege of Troy	6
Sack of Troy	2
Siege of Troy	2
Abduction of Helen	1
Greek expedition against Troy	1
Sack of Ilion	1
Trojan War (Iliad)	1
Trojan War (as precursor through Helen’s marriage)	1
Trojan War (in myth)	1
Trojan War legends	1
Trojan War mythological cycle	1
burning of Troy	1
destruction of Troy	1
night attack on Troy	1
sack of Troy	1
ten-year siege of Troy	1
the Trojan War itself	1

Statements (96)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	event in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological war ⓘ
associatedWithSite	Hisarlik ⓘ
centralWorkOf	Homer ⓘ
describedIn	Aethiopis ⓘ Cypria ⓘ Epic Cycle ⓘ Homer's Iliad ⓘ surface form: Iliad Iliou Persis ⓘ Little Iliad ⓘ Nostoi ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ surface form: Odyssey Posthomerica ⓘ
hasAllegedDate	Late Bronze Age ⓘ around 12th century BCE ⓘ
hasCause	abduction of Helen ⓘ judgment of Paris ⓘ surface form: judgement of Paris oath of Tyndareus ⓘ
hasCulturalStatus	foundational myth of Greek civilization ⓘ
hasDebatedStatus	historicity of the war ⓘ
hasKeyEvent	Achilles’ heel wound ⓘ Trojan Horse stratagem ⓘ death of Patroclus ⓘ duel of Paris and Menelaus ⓘ funeral games for Patroclus ⓘ quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon ⓘ sack of Troy ⓘ slaying of Hector by Achilles ⓘ
hasMainLocation	Asia Minor ⓘ Troad ⓘ Troy ⓘ
hasMotif	Achilles ⓘ surface form: Achilles’ heel Trojan Horse ⓘ apple of discord ⓘ heroic duel ⓘ siege warfare ⓘ
hasOutcome	Greek victory ⓘ death of Achilles ⓘ death of Hector ⓘ death of Priam ⓘ destruction of Troy ⓘ enslavement of Trojan women ⓘ
hasParticipant	Achaeans ⓘ Achilles ⓘ Aeneas ⓘ Agamemnon ⓘ Ajax the Greater ⓘ Ajax the Lesser ⓘ Andromache ⓘ Aphrodite ⓘ Apollo ⓘ Ares ⓘ Athena ⓘ Briseis (traditional association) ⓘ surface form: Briseis Cassandra ⓘ Chryseis ⓘ Diomedes ⓘ Hector ⓘ Hecuba (Euripides) ⓘ surface form: Hecuba Helen of Troy ⓘ Hera ⓘ Hermes ⓘ Memnon (in later tradition) ⓘ surface form: Memnon Menelaus ⓘ Nestor ⓘ Odysseus ⓘ Paris ⓘ Patroclus ⓘ Penthesilea (in later tradition) ⓘ surface form: Penthesilea Poseidon ⓘ Priam ⓘ Sarpedon ⓘ Thetis ⓘ Trojans ⓘ Zeus ⓘ
hasTheme	divine intervention ⓘ fate ⓘ heroism ⓘ honor ⓘ love and betrayal ⓘ wrath of Achilles ⓘ
hasTimeSpan	ten years ⓘ
influenced	European drama ⓘ Roman literature ⓘ Western art ⓘ Western literature ⓘ ancient Greek literature ⓘ
partOf	Greek mythology ⓘ
relatedWork	Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ surface form: Aeneid Agamemnon ⓘ Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) ⓘ surface form: Iphigenia at Aulis Philoctetes ⓘ Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ surface form: Trojan Women
studiedInDiscipline	archaeology ⓘ classics ⓘ comparative mythology ⓘ

Referenced by (125)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Homer's Iliad → setDuring → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Iliad

Odysseus → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Odysseus → participatedIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Homer → primarySettingOfWorks → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trojan War (Iliad)

Virgil's Aeneid → containsEpisode → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: fall of Troy

Homeric epics → setting → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trojan War mythological cycle

Helen of Troy → associatedEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

Helen of Troy → causeOf → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trojan War (in myth)

Aphrodite → myth → Trojan War ⓘ

Apollodorus of Athens → Chronica_startingPoint → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: fall of Troy

Achilles → notableFor → Trojan War ⓘ

Achilles → participatedIn → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Siege of Troy

Thersander → participatedIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Patroclus → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Patroclus → diesIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Troilus and Criseyde → setting → Trojan War ⓘ

Troilus → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Magnetes → foughtIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Troy → portraysEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Troy (film)

Greco-Roman mythology → hasMythCycle → Trojan War ⓘ

Cassandra → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Trojan cycle → narrativeFocus → Trojan War ⓘ

Trojan cycle → subject → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: fall of Troy

judgment of Paris → causeOf → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Judgment of Paris

judgment of Paris → precedesEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Judgment of Paris

this entity surface form: siege of Troy

Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) → mythologicalContext → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Iphigenia in Aulis

Eris (Greek goddess of strife and discord) → causedEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Eris

Epic Cycle → narrativeFocus → Trojan War ⓘ

Epic Cycle → includesEvents → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: fall of Troy

Agamemnon → mythologicalCycle → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trojan War cycle

Agamemnon → participatedIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Agamemnon → causeOf → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greek expedition against Troy

Nostoi (Returns) → associatedConcept → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Nostoi

this entity surface form: Trojan War cycle

Nostoi (Returns) → relatedWork → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Nostoi

this entity surface form: Sack of Ilion

Philoctetes (Sophocles) → mythologicalContext → Trojan War ⓘ

Greek mythology → hasPart → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trojan War cycle

Priam → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Trojan Women (Euripides) → associatedWithWar → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Trojan Women

Nestor → participatedIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Heroic Age → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Heroic Age → includesEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

Paris → causeOfWar → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Abduction of Helen

Paris → associatedEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

Menelaus → associatedWithEvent → Trojan War ⓘ

Menelaus → participantIn → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Siege of Troy

bard Demodocus → singsAbout → Trojan War ⓘ

subject surface form: Demodocus

Telephus → associatedWith → Trojan War ⓘ

Aeneas → participatedIn → Trojan War ⓘ

Aeneas → survivorOf → Trojan War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sack of Troy

Hades’s helm of invisibility → usedInMyth → Trojan War ⓘ