Troas Troad : the confederacy of several allied independent cities of which Troy was the chief. They were harried by the Greeks for the first nine years of the Trojan War before they attacked Troy.
... and the Hellespont; its inhabitants fought as Trojan allies. Tripod: a vessel on three legs. Trojan, son of Priam. Troilus: Trojan, son of Priam. Troy: This city (also called Troas or Ilios or Ilion or Ilium) was located on the western shore of modern Turkey directly on the trade routes between Greece and the Middle East (see map p. 17). This, strategic location put Troy in a... tumulus. Bird of omen: to discover the will of the gods, the Greeks consulted oracles who observed the flight of birds. Briseis: daughter of Briseus, a Lyrnessian from the Troad; she became Achilles' slave-concubine when he sacked her town and killed her husband. She was later taken from Achilles by his king Agamemnon. This act set off the quarrel between the two which forms... stronghold in the region. The Trojans as we meet them in the Iliad are a highly civilized people ruled by a wise and benevolent king. Xanthus: the divine name given to a river of the Troad which was named Scamander by mortals. ...
... victor flood on the Myrmidon left and Achilles. Then shall no Hellene again dare embark in ships for the Troad. Cursed shall its beaches be to their sons and their sons and for ever." So she spoke and Aurus ran by the chariots protected. Then had all Hellas perished indeed on the beaches of Troas, But from the Argives' right where she battled Pallas Athene Saw and was wroth and she missioned her... of the Troad. Hasten, let not the day wear gold ere thou stand in her ramparts. Herald charged with my will to a haughty and obstinate nation, Speak in the palace of Priam the word of the Phthian Achilles. Freely and not as his vassal who leads, Agamemnon, the Argive, But as a ruler in Hellas I send thee, king of my nations. Long I have walked apart from the mellay of gods in the Troad, Long... lustres, Ida first of the hills with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, as since the ages First began they had watched her, upbearing Time on their summits. Troas cold on her plain awaited the boon of the sunshine. There, like a hope through an emerald dream sole-pacing for ever, Stealing to wideness beyond, crept Simois lame in his currents, Guiding his argent ...
... Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains the Trojans thundered, Just as a storm comes thundering, thick with the dust of kingdoms, Edged with the devious dance of the lightning, so all Troas Loud with the roar of the chariots, loud with the vaunt and the war-cry, Rushed from Troywards gleaming with spears and rolled on enormous. Joyous as ever Paris led them glancing in armour, Brilliant ...
... so great a rarity as jade. In return Troy brought from the interior, and exported, timber, silver, gold, and wild asses. Sealed proudly behind their walls, the 'horse-taming Trojans' dominated the Troad, and taxed its trade on land and sea."1 Ancient historians believed that the main cause of the Troyan War was the quest of the Greeks for new life, and since Troy was rich and prosperous, Troy... r, as if Troy1 had nine lives. According to Schliemann, the ruins of the second city belong to Homer's Troy; current opinion identifies the sixth city with Homer's 1 Troy also known as Troas, Ilios, Ilion, Ilium. Page 16 Troy and we are assured that that city had perished by fire, shortly after 1200 BC. Greek historians traditionally assigned the Siege of Troy to 1194-1184 ...
... lustres, Ida first of the hills with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, as since the ages First began they had watched her, upbearing Time on their summits. Troas cold on her plain awaited the boon of the sunshine. There, like a hope through an emerald dream sole-pacing for ever, Stealing to wideness beyond, crept Simois lame in his currents, Guiding his argent... Fate-teams; Evil once ended renews and no issue comes out of living: Only an Eye unseen can distinguish the thread of its workings. Such seemed the rule of the pastime of Fate on the plains of the Troad; All went backwards and forwards tossed in the swing of the death-game. Vain was the toil of the heroes, the blood of the mighty was squandered, Spray as of surf on the cliffs when it moans unappeased ...
... by disguising him as a girl on Scyros. Discovered there by Odysseus, he came to Troy of his own free will and not as a vassal of Agamemnon. With his army of Myrmidons he took many towns in the Troad, including Lyrnessus where he captured Breseis. When Agamemnon took Breseis from him, Achilles withdrew with his warriors from the battle, but he soon returned to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus... Odysseus, her favourite. Babylon: Ancient city on the Euphrates, one of the greatest and most prosperous cities in the ancient world. Breseis: Daughter of Briseus, a man of Lyrnessus in Troad. Breseis became Achilles' slave-concubine when he sacked her town, killed her husband Mynes, king of Lyrnessus, and carried her off. She was later taken from Achilles by Agamemnon. This... eternity into Tartarus, the abysmal depths of the earth. Triton: son of Poseidon. He was a sea creature like a merman, the uper half of his body being human, the lower half fishlike. Troad: A territory in the northwest corner of Asia Minor surrounding Troy, its capital city. Trojans: The people of Troy. Troy: Ancient city in northwest Asia Minor, which was situated a few ...
... The Book of the Gods Excerpt from Ilion by Sri Aurobindo So on the earth the seed that was sown of the centuries ripened; Europe and Asia, met on their borders, clashed in the Troad. All over earth men wept and bled and laboured, world-wide Sowing Fate with their deeds and had other fruit than they hoped for. Out of desires and their passionate griefs and fleeting... vehement drama staged twixt the sea and the mountains, Phrased in the clamour and glitter of arms and closed by the firebrand, Act itself out in the blood and in passions fierce on the Troad. Page 73 Yet as a father his children, who sits in the peace of his study Hearing the noise of his brood and pleased with their play and their quarrels, So he beheld our mortal... from the seats of the Mighty, So embodied she visits the hearts of men and their dwellings And in her breathing tenement laughs at the eyes that can see her. Swirt-footed down to the Troad she hastened thrilling the earth-gods. There with ambrosial secrecy veiled, admiring the heroes Strong and beautiful, might of the warring and glory of armour, Over her son Aeneas she ...
... from ruin and evil. Yet whenever he hears of you and knows you are living. Then he has joy in his breast and day by day he is hopeful, Waiting to see his own dear son returned from the Troad; Yet myself am bereft entirely, I who begot sons Best in Troy's broad land, and see not one who is left me... Have due thought of the gods, Achilles, and show me compassion, Your ...
... Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains the Trojans thundered, Just as a storm comes thundering, thick with the dust of kingdoms, Edged with the devious dance of the lightning, so all Troas Loud with the roar of the chariot, loud with the vaunt and the war-cry, Rushed from Troywards gleaming with spears and rolled on enormous. Joyous as ever Paris led them glancing in armour ...
... first of the hills with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, as since the ages First began they had watched her, upbearing Time on their summits. Troas cold on her plain awaited the boon of the sunshine. There, like a hope through an emerald dream sole-pacing for ever. Stealing to wideness beyond, crept Simois lame in his currents, ...
... life; an irony of martial interrelations strikes its note, both stern and tragic, in the vision of death's day-to-day events in a war: Ajax has bit at the dust; it is all he shall have of the Troad; Tall Meriones lies and measures his portion of booty. 2 Again and again, the drift of the least impulse, the lightest act, the most familiar situation is charged with the heroic, the ...
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