title: The Trojan Horse: The Fall of Troy [a Greek Myth] (Graphic Myths and Legends)
author:  Justine Fontes 
description: "Fast and simple . . . all action, right to the end." -- <i>Library Media Connection</i><br /><br />"Full-color, realistic illustrations, dramatic points of view and stylish layouts make these old stories visually fresh and accessible to modern audiences." -- <i>BayViews</i>
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  {ix} [Introduction](Auth_ISBNXXXXXXXXX_epub_c5_r1.html#ch2)
  
  
  The earliest works of ancient Greek literature are two epic poems, the _Iliad_
  and the _Odyssey,_ both attributed to a single poet, Homer. Although very
  different in their themes, settings, and outlooks, both of these poems display
  the expansive scope of epic, which typically recounts events with far-reaching
  historical consequences, sums up the values and achievements of an entire
  culture, and documents the fullness and variety of the world. And both poems
  deal with the same event in Greek mythology, the war against Troy.
  
  
  In the myth of the Trojan War, the Greeks band together and sail to Troy, on
  the coast of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Their purpose is to recover
  Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek chieftain, Menelaus, who has been stolen
  by the Trojan prince Paris, and to punish Troy for Helen’s abduction. The
  Greeks spend ten hard years fighting around Troy until they finally succeed in
  taking the city and