Trojans
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the Trojans · Dardanians · the Trojan host · Phrygians · Trojan · Trojan warriors · barbarians · Asia's daughters · Dardanian warriors · Ilium
in the texts
Iliad
The defenders of Troy, opponents of the Achaeans, invoked as the army Zeus is asked to favor.
Go, then, to him, remind him of all this, clasp his knees, and bid him give succor to the Trojans.
I came to make war here not because the Trojans are responsible [ aitioi] for any wrong committed against me.
Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and counsel.
Odyssey
The people of Troy, besieged and eventually defeated by the Achaeans.
If my brave father Odysseus ever did you loyal service, either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed at the district [ dêmos] of the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favor and tell me truly all.
"My friend," answered Nestor, "you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and in that district [ dêmos] when fighting before the great city of king Priam.
If Athena were to take as great a liking to you as she did to Odysseus when we were fighting in the Trojan dêmos (for I never yet saw the gods so openly fond of any one as Athena then was of your father), if she would take as good care of you as she did of him, these wooers would soon some of them forget their wooing.
Orations
The Trojan people and army, depicted in various episodes of battle and revelry contrasted with Achaean discipline.
so the Trojans and Achaeans, leaping upon one another, kept slaying, and neither side took thought of ruinous flight.
"And indeed he says that the Achaeans, when victorious, encamped in quiet, whereas among the Trojans, whenever they thought they had some advantage, at once there was all through the night 'the sound of flutes and pipes and the din of men'—as though this too were a sufficient sign of virtue or of baseness:
"The only song he will sing and admit is the one befitting Enyalius, very strong and piercing, bringing to its hearers neither pleasure nor relaxation, but irresistible terror and confusion—such as Ares himself raised when 'he shouted shrill from the topmost citadel, urging on the Trojans,' and such as Achilles raised when, merely by his shout, before he was seen, he put the Trojans to flight, and …
The Trojan Women
The defeated people of Troy, now captives awaiting transport into slavery.
First, then, that woman was the author of these troubles by giving birth to Paris;
And you, you sons of Troy, to let my orders take at once a double form—start for the Achaean ships for your departure from the land, as soon as the leaders of the army blow loud and clear upon the trumpet.
unhappy wives of those armored sons of Troy!
Andromache
The Trojan people, collectively invoked as a conquered and enslaved nation and as the target of Hermione's and Menelaus's ethnic disparagement.
Such is all the race of barbarians;
for Asia’s daughters have clever heads for such villainy;
had they listened, Ilium’s daughters ne’er had felt the yoke of slavery, and thou, lady, hadst been established in the royal palace;
Electra
The people of Troy, defeated by Agamemnon's expedition and referenced throughout as the vanquished enemy.
After he had slain Priam, the ruler of Ilium, and captured the famous city of Dardanus, he came here to Argos and set up on the high temples many spoils of the barbarians.
I heard, from someone who had arrived at the harbor of Nauplia from Ilium, that on the circle of your famous shield, O son of Thetis, were wrought these signs, a terror to the Phrygians:
Rhesus
The Trojan army and its allied contingents defending the city against the Greeks.
Ah, Phrygia still hath hearts of rock!
The Phrygian spear flies fast and far!
Ye gathered Trojans, sharers of my word,
The Histories
The people of Troy who, besieged by the Greeks, consistently testified that Helen and Menelaus's stolen wealth were not in their city but in Egypt.
But the Greeks, thinking that the Trojans were mocking them, laid siege to the city, until they took it;
that they did not have Helen or the property claimed, but all of that was in Egypt, and they could not justly make reparation for what Proteus the Egyptian had.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
The Trojans are the people among whom Anchises seeks prominence and Aeneas is destined to rule.
and you shall have a dear son who shall reign among the Trojans, and children's children after him, springing up continually.
And do you feel kindly towards me and grant that I may become a man very eminent among the Trojans, and give me strong offspring for the time to come.
The Rights of War and Peace
Trojan settlers who received barren land from the native Latins.
Seven hundred acres of barren and uncultivated land, as Servius observes, were given by the native Latins to the Trojans.
Helen
The people of Troy, who chose to endure the war rather than surrender Helen.
nay, the Trojans were upholding the cause of Asia, the Greeks of Europe, in the belief that the land in which Helen in person resided would be the more favored of Fortune.
on the contrary, the Trojans allowed their cities to be laid waste and their land to be ravaged, so as to avoid yielding Helen to the Greeks, and the Greeks chose rather, remaining in a foreign land to grow old there and never to see their own again, than, leaving her behind, to return to their fatherland.
Against Leocrates
The defenders of Troy addressed by Hector in the quoted Homeric lines.
Thus Hector, while exhorting the Trojans to defend their country, speaks these words:
Isthmean
The people of Troy, whose city was twice sacked by Aeacid-led forces.
Twice in battles they sacked the city of the Trojans:
Alcibiades 1
The defenders of Troy in Homer's Iliad, cited alongside the Achaeans as an example of a people destroyed through disputes over justice.
And from this difference arose the fights and deaths of the Achaeans, and of the Trojans as well, and of the suitors of Penelope in their strife with Odysseus.
Alcibiades 2
Defenders of Troy whose large sacrifices are described in the quoted verses as refused by hostile gods.
But the Spartans have never taken any such pains, and indeed are so neglectful in their behavior to the gods, that they make a practice of sacrificing defective victims, and generally are very much behind us in the honors that they pay, though the wealth they possess is quite equal to that of our city.
Chrestomathy
Defenders of Ilium who resist the Greek landing and refuse to return Helen.
They send envoys to the Trojans, demanding back Helen and the treasures;
De Anima
Fellow soldiers of Euphorbus whom Pythagoras failed to recognize, undermining his reincarnation claim.
In short, he who had proved himself Euphorbus from the argument of the shield, why did he recognize none of the Trojans, his fellow-soldiers, in like manner?
History of the Peloponnesian War
The defenders of Troy who, according to Thucydides's analysis, were able to hold out for ten years chiefly because the besieging Greek force was undermined by want of money and food.
since even though not united, but only with the part that was successively present, they held out against them.
And in this way the Trojans, owing to their being scattered, the more easily held out by open force those ten years;