In the 13th century BC, ancient Greece was the most powerful state of the hundreds of city-states of Sparta. The Spartan warriors were the bravest and the most proficient in battle. After the birth of each Spartan baby, they had to be bathed in spirits, and the babies who could not withstand the stimulus of the spirits were considered weak and immediately thrown into the valley to feed the wolves.
Spartan boys were sent to children's camps for training when they reached the age of seven. Learn to run, box, fencing, equestrian, javelin throwing, discus. Once a year, he is subjected to a cruel scourge, testing physical and mental endurance. When he reached the age of 20, he was required to serve in the military and become a soldier, and the whole of Sparta was a military camp. As a result, the Spartan warriors and their armies won the title of the hegemon of the Greek world.
At that time, there was a peerless beauty named Helen in the ancient Greek world, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and her skin was like clotted cream. Laughing like peach blossoms in February, I don't know how many princes and dignitaries have been shocked. Becoming the pride of the Greeks, Helen later entered the royal palace and became the king and queen of Sparta.
Paris was a prince of the Trojan kingdom on the eastern shore of the Aegean Sea, and he admired Helen's beauty and tried his best to visit Helen at the Spartan palace. Paris can speak and sing, is suave, and uses rhetoric to deceive Helen's love. One stormy night, Helen abandoned the old and white-bearded king, crossed the Aegean Sea with Prince Paris, and eloped to Troy.
The Trojan prince kidnapped the first Greek beauty, shocking the entire Greek world, and the Spartans were ashamed and angry. In order to wash away the shame, Sparta called on the city-states to go on a conquest.
In 1260 B.C., Agamemnon, the king's brother, was the commander of the coalition army, and the 100,000-strong army was divided into 1,200 ships to slaughter the kingdom of Troy.
The city of Troy was located on a reef in the western part of the peninsula of Asia Minor on the shore of the Aegean Sea, and was fortified and condescending, with deep moats outside its thick walls. Due to the narrow battlefield, it was difficult for the large coalition army to deploy, and the city of Troy could not be overcome, and over time, the Greeks used the wheel-type method of warfare to besiege the city of Troy in turn, waiting for its food to run out of water, and surrender without a fight, but did not know that the city of Troy passed through a secret passage in the east to supply food and water. The war lasted for ten years, and the warriors of both sides fought day and night under the city, rivers of blood and corpses were strewn all over the field, and the Greek coalition army was helpless against the city of Troy. The Trojans were careful to respond to the battle, either fleeing or hiding back in the city and closing the gates, so the Greeks could not attack the city of Troy.
Later, Agamemnon ordered skilled craftsmen to build a huge wooden horse and paint it with strange patterns. Pull to the city of Troy, make all kinds of offerings, and worship the big wooden horse as a god. The Trojans at the head of the city felt mysterious and strange, opened the gates of the city, killed the Greeks who had sacrificed their lives, and brought the great wooden horse back to the city, where they were proud to be rewarded as trophies. After nightfall, a hole suddenly opened in the middle of the horse, and Achilles, the Greek god of war, and a group of brave and skilled Greek warriors were hidden in the horse's belly. The Greeks poured into the city and razed the city of Troy to the ground. And Helen had long since fled, which is the world-famous Trojan Horse scheme.
So, was Greece's ten-year campaign against Troy really a war caused by women?German historical military scientist von Clausewitz said: War is for politics, military views must be subordinated to political views, after the outbreak of war, it has not been separated from politics, and war is nothing more than the continuation of politics through another means. On the contrary, war has nothing to do with women, it is just an excuse.
This is the motive of political activities, some are to expand the territory, some are to unite the people, some are to divert contradictions, etc., but none of them have anything to do with women.
Troy is located in the Dardanelles, in the center of the land connection between Asia and Europe, holding the strait of the rich Black Sea, controlling the choke point of Asia-Europe trade, using its advantageous geographical location to obtain huge benefits, and becoming a hegemon. It also monopolizes the textiles of Maichni and Troy**. The Greeks had long since rejected the monopoly of Troy. The commander of the coalition was none other than the Mycenaean king Agamemnon. The prince's abduction of Helen was the best excuse for Greece to fight. Does anyone think it is possible to spend a huge war and sacrifice a huge number of people's lives to exchange a woman?