Trojan Horse
The Trojan War was a decade-long major military conflict that took place in the early 12th century BCE[1] between the city of Troy and the invading Greeks.[2] Sparked[3] when the goddess Eris threw the Apple of Discord into a competition between Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena,[1] the war gave rise to legends that the Greeks first immortalized via oral tradition and then in the Iliad and Odyssey, 9th century BCE epic poems attributed to Homer.[2] Among these many tales were that of the nigh-invincible hero Achilles,[4] whom the Trojan prince Paris slew by loosing an arrow at his body's one vulnerable spot in his heel, and his comrade-at-arms Odysseus,[1] the mastermind behind the Trojan Horse[5] and king of Ithaka who spent another decade returning home after angering the sea god Poseidon.[1]
The Trojans were not without their own heroes in this conflict. Their king Priam's eldest son Hektor slew many Greeks in the skirmishes outside the city, including Achilles' lover Patroklos,[1] which prompted Achilles to kill him in revenge[6] and desecrate the body,[1] and the city's surviving prince Aeneas sailed away and had his own adventures before landing in modern Italy to the Roman civilization, as detailed in Virgil's 1st century epic poem the Aeneid.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
In the 2010 video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, it has a memory that shares its name with the Trojan Horse.
Appearances[]
- Assassin's Creed (first mentioned)
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (indirect mention only)
- Assassin's Creed III (indirect mention only)
- Assassin's Creed: Forsaken (indirect mention only)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
- The Fate of Atlantis: Torment of Hades (indirect mention only)
- Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece (mentioned only)
- Echoes of History (mentioned only)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Trojan War on Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- ↑ Assassin's Creed
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #5: "Instruments of Power"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Infiltrating Southgate
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Torment of Hades – Cursed Spear of Achilles