Key learning points

1. The Trojan War was a mythical conflict between the Ancient Greeks and Troy, a city most likely in modern day Turkey.
2. The war began when a Trojan, Paris, kidnapped Helen from the Greek King Menelaus.
3. The Greeks defeated the Trojans but their greatest warrior, Achilles, was killed.
4. This myth was first written down as an epic poem called *The Iliad* by the Greek poet, Homer.
5. *The Iliad* not only became a major part of Ancient Greek identity, but influenced literature and art through the ages.

Keywords

• Troy - Troy is a mythical city, believed to have been located in modern-day Turkey

• Trojans - people from Troy were called Trojans

• Achilles - Achilles is a mythical hero who fought in the Trojan War, he was celebrated as a great warrior that no one could defeat

• Homer - Homer was a Greek poet, who is thought to have lived around the 700s BCE

• *The Iliad* - The Iliad is an ancient Greek poem, telling the story of the Trojan War, believed to be written by Homer

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