The Trojan War Legend:A thought about the story itself.

The story of the Trojan War goes like this: A royal lady gets kindapped or elopes with
another man. The lady is also married and is a goddess as well as being royalty.

Her husband goes to war to get her back and succeeds and destroys the kingdom that she goes to and kills the joker who eloped with or kidnaped her. So the lady is returned to her husband and kingdom

The story line here has a great deal of similarity with the great Indian epic "The Ramanaya". In essence the Ramanaya goes like this; A King called Rama has a wife called Sita. Oneday they go to a hunt and Rama tells his Mrs. to stay in the camp and draws a circle around her telling that if she stays within that circle she will be safe. However she steps over the circle and a king called Ravana kidnaps her and takes to Lanka, his kingdom, thought to be Sri Lanka.

Well her husband returns to camp finds her missing and was told what happened goes of to get her back. War then ensues and Ravana is killed and she is then returned to husband and kingdom.

Any one who thinks that the story line of the Iliad is original bettet hink again. There are a couple of stories like it and the Ramanaya like the Iliad are Indo-European , as the Ramanaya is composed in the Sanskrit language and is also an Indo-European language.