An Introduction by david adams LEMMINGAlmost three thousand years ago people would talk about a man named Homer. Homers first stories talked about a ten year war that was fought at the city of Troy. Homer's lliad says that the Trojan War was fought between the people of Troy and an alliance of greek kings. What caused this war was a woman named Helen who ran away with a prince of Troy, who was named Paris.
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epics and valuesEpics are told to be about heros adventures. The Greeks used the lead and the Odyssey in schools so later on other cultures started making their own epics to teach their on virtues.
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the war story background violence and brutalityThe reason that the greeks attacked Troy was because the kings wife ran off with Paris. Then that's when the greek kings united to defeat Odysseus.
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