Greeck Wars
This is a short summary of a number of different old stories about the Trojan war. There are often several different, even contradictory, versions of events.There is no one authoritative narrative of the whole war. Many of these stories were obvious current before Homer, and the story continued to be embellished by the Romans and Medieval writers.When newly constructed, Troy was attacked and captured by Herakles (Hercules), Telamon (brother of Peleus and therefore the uncle of Achilles; father of Telamonian Ajax and Teucros), and Peleus (son of Aeacus and father of Achilles), as a punishment for the fact that Laomedon had not given Hercules a promised reward of immortal horses for rescuing Laomedon's daughter Hesione. Telamon killed Laomedon and took Hesione as a concubine (she was the mother of Teucros).
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