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Achilles' well trained soldiers |
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Achilles' best friend. He put on Achilles armor, ran into battle, and was soon killed by Hector, Priam's eldest son. |
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Achilles and Agamemnon's battle |
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| Agamemon stole Achilles' female slave. Achilles, infuriated with Agamemnon, refused to fight. |
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| After ten years, Troy was burnt to the ground when the Trojans believed the wooden horse was a gift from the gods and allowed the Greeks entrance to their city. |
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| Excavated the supposed site of the Trojan War in 1871 and proved Troy once existed and was destroyed by fire |
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| Robbed and blinded, earned his living as a singing poet. He wrote the two greatest epic poems: the Iliad, the story of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, the story of Ulysses' 10 year voyage home. |
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| Called on the Dorians to help them win back their land in the Peloponnesus. They won and ruled over the cities of Argos, Mycenae, and Sparta. |
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| Were driven out by the Dorians. They settled in Ionia in Asia Minor. They founded many towns including Ephesus and Miletus. |
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| At the Ionian's request, this king went to battle against Sparta and was killed, causing the defeated Spartans (Heraclidae) to return to their city. The last event of the Heroic Age. |
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| Enslaved prisoners of war in Sparta. |
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| Member of the royal family, brough new customs to Sparta in 923 B.C. Created Sparta's strict laws. |
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| All newborns were brought before a council that would determine whether the baby would be allowed to live; all babies crippled or deformed in any way would be abandoned on a nearby mountain. |
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| Parents raised their children until they were seven years old, at which time they would be turned over to the state for training. |
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| Included learning to recite the poems of Homer, singing patriotic songs accompanied with a lyre, and dancing. |
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