greek mythology

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad. The core of the Iliad describes a period of four days and two nights in the tenth year of the decade-long siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments.

Sea People

• around 1200 BCE the mysterious “sea people” began to invade Mycenae, and burnt palace after palace
• so, the Dorians moved into this war-torn region, dominating from 1150 - 750 BCE
• Dorians were far less advanced
• the trade-based economy collapsed
• writing disappeared for 400 years