The Apple of Discord

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

On the other hand the war in the poem doesn't actually need to record anything historical at all. There probably wasn't a war anything like that one, even if you ignore the theological elements, just for purely logistical reasons.

From what I have discovered, most of the ten years of the war was mostly a siege and blockade action with increased build-up as the Spartans and Trojans both sought allies with very few actual battles; think of it as ten years of Desert Shield and then The Iliad and the Trojan Horse essentially being Desert Storm.

Despite it being massively mythologically inaccurate (on top of various other factors that made me cringe at times), the movie Troy is an interesting depiction of how the war would probably have played out.