Me or You?

           One part in the Trojan war is that Aeneas, is being begged by his own wife to stop the war and think of their family.  It is compared to the scene in Iliad wherein Andromache is pleading to Hector in the same logic, to think about their family mostly their son, Astyanax.
           So I kind of think that both scenes share the same thought and is usually found in war movies wherein the wife of the character or someone really close is begging to think about their family. It makes me feel sad and it makes me think about my own family too, if I am in that kind of situation.
           What I learned in the stories? I think it would probably be the critically and analytically thinking about a difficult situation. It also made me learn that your family is really important and would make you feel nostalgic if you haven't seen them in a while.
           So what about their difference? It's pretty hard to see the difference in the two scenes but I think it would be about the correct foreseeing of the death of Hector predicted by Andromache.

VICTORIOUS and DEFEATED.

          So in the last blog, I told you about my feeling with regards to the fall of Troy. The Trojans have been deceived by their enemy, leading to their victory.

          How did the Trojans lose? Like I said in my last blog, the strategy of the Greeks is good and they didn't notice it well so they got deceived. Since they don't know how the Greeks are planning, the Trojans made their tactics to as an aggressive one, placing strong aces in the front leaving some rather weak allies on their bases. They didn't know that their strategy has been defeated by the strategy of the Greeks. That alone made the Trojan war the terrible loss for the Trojans.

          So why is it the ultimate victory of the Greeks? Knowing their strategy well, they really put a lot of effort and time of thinking for it. Since they both want to win, they need to counter every move of at least win by every move they make. If you had lost in your move, you should think of a different move to at least win. That is the logic I think made the Greeks win the Trojan war.

Deceived by own eyes...

         So there is one story called the Aeneid and it's a pretty long poem for me and I couldn't understand old terms so I felt like reading an translated version. So there is one part in the poems that Aeneas is telling the Trojan War and what happened in that part. The Greeks and the Trojans fought and in the end, the Greeks won.

          Perhaps, you'll be thinking on how did the Greeks won. They won because of  of their strategy. Their strategy is the using of the Trojan horse. The Trojan Horse is a wooden horse that is used by the Greeks to infiltrate the base of Trojans. As I've said, the Trojans lost. And I am to make a reaction if I had sympathy about it.

          So, yes I felt sympathy about it. It felt like that it is unfair, rude and cruel.  But I just can't blame it because it's their strategy and both clans want to win.