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The Overlooked Heroes of the Trojan War

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In this video, we are going to introduce you to some of the other important warriors and heroes from the Iliad that you need to know!
The Trojan War was fought between the Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age. The story has grabbed the imagination for millennia but a conflict between Mycenaeans and Hittites may well have occurred, even if its representation in epic literature such as Homer’s Iliad is almost certainly more myth than reality.

The Trojan War has defined and shaped the way ancient Greek culture has been viewed right up to the 21st century CE. The story of gods and heroic warriors is perhaps one of the richest single surviving sources from antiquity and offers insights into the warfare, religion, customs, and attitudes of the ancient Greeks.

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— CHAPTERS —
0:00​ Introduction
1:05 Introduction to the Trojan War
2:46 The Achaean Heroes
8:16 The Trojan Heroes
11:03 Outro

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Ajax (Play) https://www.worldhistory.org/Ajax_[Play]/
Sarpedon https://www.worldhistory.org/Sarpedon/
Diomedes https://www.worldhistory.org/Diomedes/
Trojan War https://www.worldhistory.org/Trojan_War/

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Myrmidons: Achilles and the Ant-Men of Antiquity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4Wl8h7SQk
Hephaestus the Greek God of Fire and Metallurgy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghA2GqO5is&t

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16 comments

  2. Diomedes was lit the best and most celebrated Greek hero of ancient Greece now people overlook him coz he didn't have a tragedy like Achilles

  3. Forgot about Glaucus I thought he was the one who actually mortally wounded patroclus or was it Euphorbus another Trojan hero and hector finishing him off in spite. Then there was Phorkys and Polydaumas were also overlooked and deserve recognition

  4. TEUCER, AJAX'S 1/2 BROTHER, THE ASTUTE ARCHER ON THE ACHAEAN SIDE!! I FIND NO MENTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS HERO, IN ANY movIE , SERIES OR VIDEO. WHILE ILIAD DEPICTS HIM COUNTLESS TIMES

  10. Bravo Kelly! Well said! Aeneas sons where the founders of Rome which later became Roman empire, and in wikipedia if i remember well it is not even mentioned… also at the time that Alexander the Great was in the river of Nile (if i remember well) and was exploring it he mentions that Rome is rising, and he was thinking to turn back to Greece and do something about it but it was near his end and didnt plan yet anything for Rome.

  13. I love the World History Encyclopedia, I use it all the time. However, I’m confused by the claim that Briseis deserves more attention — what more about her is there to say? I hardly recall her ever appearing “on stage,” and if she ever had a few lines of dialogue they must have been minute as I don’t at all remember them. I’d always taken her to be merely representative of Achilles’ honor, which Agamemnon besmirches in his pilfering of her — much like having your hard-earned wages usurped by one only slightly superior to you — than anything approaching a character in her own right. She’s a catalyst for the story, rather than a part of the story herself.

    It’s a sad fact that in much classical literature women are as often plot devices as actual characters, and in the interests of the Encyclopedia’s educational mission, it’s important to admit that reality. In any case, there are so many wonderful female figures in the Greek canon — from Cassandra to Antigone — that we really don’t need to go dumpster diving for a non-character like Briseis. As a woman myself, it feels a bit condescending.

  15. I heard that in one Greek myth, Zeus fell in love with Nemesis and even though she constantly changed her shape Zeus copulated with her in the form of a swan. And she laid an egg which gave birth to someone, I can't remember who though.
    Cape Helen that's who it was.

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