Trojan War

Trojan War Essay Rough Draft


The Greeks and Romans believed that gods were an explanation of how the environment around them came to exist. The gods were mostly looked on as beings with higher power but with same human characteristics such as hate, greed, jealousy, pettiness, happiness, sadness, and so on. Although they might have been divinities, they were not above taking revenge at the cost of others. In fact, foul manner and lack of respect toward mortals and themselves. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology describes how the Trojan War is influenced by the actions of the gods and goddesses and why the gods are the ones who started it.
The Trojan war begins when a jealous Eris, the goddess of Discord, throws a golden apple marked “For the Fairest” into the banquet hall at the wedding of King Peleus and Queen Thethis. The contest is narrowed down to Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena competing to be “the Fairest.” Hamilton says, “They asked Zeus to judge between them,...