Trojan War Story

[alrem]

I'm planning to write a story about the famous greek mythology of Troy. Basically the story will start at the end of the war where Troy has been burned and all men was killed. What's left on the city was women and children bound for slavery.

Ofcourse children will not be detailed as abused but will mention some suffering (not sexual).

The story will flow through controlling of captive women and sexually forcing them to slavery. This will involve some famous character in the mythology like Helen and Cassandra, even gods like Appolo and Zeus.

This is my first time to write for Literotica so do you have any suggestion?


Wait... if your going to point the writer's resources to me... I've read it already. What I'm asking is the tips for story flow or how would you like the story to be writen? I will use it to give my story a better looks.

 

[Xenolan]

Bear in mind that if you're going for historical accuracy, a lot of the men will be just as interested in each other as they are in the female captives.

 

[Pyro Paul]

Bear in mind that if you're going for historical accuracy, a lot of the men will be just as interested in each other as they are in the female captives.

historicly accuracy would not include men being interested in eachother, gay sex in the greek army wasn't something that some men wanted to do but needed to. you go in an army, march a thousand miles away from any civilization and set camp for 2 months. if that gay factor was not included many men would of gone stark insane.

but, males never found other males 'attractive' in the least.

 

[JRaven]

Bear in mind that if you're going for historical accuracy, a lot of the men will be just as interested in each other as they are in the female captives.

If my history classes serve me well, (as well as the History Channel) I believe you may be confusing the Greeks with the Romans. The Romans felt that beauty was not gender biased. It was perfectly normal to have sex with either.

In spite of what we consider to be "Greek" now, it was not very common. No doubt, the Greek Army might occasionally indulge.

Alrem,
Good luck with the story. I don't think you need to include any gay male action. You could easily state that with a city full of women, there would be no need for it.

Otherwise, you have a good rape and pillage storyline. Certainly believeable. Consider the rape and pillage of Kuwait by the Iraqi's back in the 90's.

Good luck. Be sure to repost to this thread when you finally get the story up.

Jenny

 

[alrem]

I've made a research on Greek mythology and I've never encountered homosexuality on either Greek or Trojan camps specially during war. I understand the point that the Greeks travelled overseas and the wartime reaches ten years so that there's a posibility that they lusted each other. But since the story time started at the end of the war, the sight of Trojan women at the mercy of Greek army will wash away every male homosexuality on them.

Anyway you've just spiced up my mind about the idea of homosexuality and I think it can give additional view on my story. I really appreciated your reactions. Thanks.

I hope there will be more suggestions to come.

 

[TheCaptain]

Bloddy brilliant idea - can't hardly wait to read it!

This is a brilliant idea alrem, and I think it would make a FANTASTIC story here on Lit!

You've got a lot of information and documented events to draw on to make the story interesting - I especially like the incident with Prince Hector of Troy's wife, Andromache, being taken as a concubine by one of the victorious Greek warriors, Achilles' son, Neoptolemus.

He was a particularly brutal, bloodthirsty, ruthless character in history - my High School History teacher was of the belief that he was a psychotic, who enjoyed inflicting pain in others just cause he could... sounds like a good dominant maschocist to me!

Capt

 

[alrem]

Thanks for the interest captain and nice information you've given me. I already have a plot for Andromache in the story but the added characteristic of her captor was a great addition for the story. Suggestions like this really help me cook up bright ideas.

Although I've already researched about the Trojan war I'm still seeking additional sources to make every detail interesting.

As the time I'm writing this post I've already have a skeletal draft of the story that is cut out to several chapters. Well, that's how I work on my stories - cutting them to pieces scene per scene to enrich the visual effect of the story.

I'm just an amateur writer but I'm gonna give my best in this

 

[DanielOrme]

Read The Trojan Women by Euripides, or see the 1971 film of it.

You probably already have, but I just thought it should be mentioned.

I love Greek mythology, so I'm looking forward to this story. Good luck!

 

[oOScarletWingsOo]

Hmmm

Well I think that if you show to whom the women are bound and give a clear reason for the sex slavery, it could work.

I'm not in your head and don't want you to give anything away, but consider giving a satisfying ending to your piece. I can envision it going in lots of directions. Pick one theme and one character to focus the majority of your story on.

I'm interested to see how it turns out.

 

[Eilan]

I thought this was a thread about dueling condoms. *backs away slowly*

 

[Xenolan]

Oh, I just thought of something - would you plan to have the Greek gods involved in the action? They were always hot for mortals, it seemed - especially Zeus.

 

[poirot515]

Andromache becomes a sex slave and forced to give birth to sons out of wedlock

 

[snooper]

Read The Trojan Women by Euripides, ...

Available in full, in English translation, at http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/troj_women.html.

 

[alrem]

Oh, I just thought of something - would you plan to have the Greek gods involved in the action? They were always hot for mortals, it seemed - especially Zeus.

If I answer this it would spoil the suspense. But as what I know Olympian Gods were as horny as mortals.

 

[alrem]

While writing this story, there's a part that really puzzles me...

How do you describe the greek clothes for men. Well look at these:

http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/images/foundry/ancients/trojan-heroes.jpg

I use the word skirt to describe their lowerbody garment but does anyone knows a better way to describe it?

 

[TheCaptain]

hmmmm... an interesting dilemna

While writing this story, there's a part that really puzzles me...

How do you describe the greek clothes for men. Well look at these:

http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/images/foundry/ancients/trojan-heroes.jpg

I use the word skirt to describe their lowerbody garment but does anyone knows a better way to describe it?

Give me about 12hrs and I can come up with all the terminology that you could possibly need about the costumes/attire of the Ancient Greeks and Trojans - I have a few texts to draw on, but need a little while to go through them as it has been a couple of years since I last had them out

Tried to run a quick google search, but didn't come up with any website hits that I thought would be useful with the keywords I used, I'm afraid

I wouldnt try to go MUCH into the terminology - just mention the proper name of armour, helmets etc once or twice to give readers that sense of authenticity... but this would be a EROTIC story, after all, so the focus of the tale should be on that more than anything else all the while

Sometimes, too much detail might just take attention away from the sex!

Capt

 

[alrem]

That's great Captain! You really are so kind and helpful.

Your right about, too much detail leaves the focus to the subject and I'll keep it on my while writing. (Thanks for the advise)

But some times you really need to add some detail in able to give life to the imaginations.

I guess "everything that's too much is bad".

 

[TheCaptain]

Okay I don't know, you might already have this site, but this is one of the best step-by-step accounts of the Trojan War, as my understanding is of it as well, that I can find online:

The Trojan War

And these are other articles of possible interest:

Architecture of Ancient Greece
Greek Literature
Greek Mythology
Homosexuality in the Militaries of Ancient Greece(if you are going to take the story in that direction)
List of Ancient Greek Cities
Timeline of Ancient Greece

This site is not a part of Wikipedia but is also quite interesting, and detailed:

Greek Wars

Now I'm afraid that I might have been a bit premature about helping you out with the proper terminology of Greek armor, shields and weapons etc. I cannot find the textbooks I THOUGHT I still had from my high school days .

Oh well, I apologized sincerely for this, and will let you know if I can find some informtion online that might be useful to your work in this regard. I hope these pages help you in some form, also. Good luck!

BTW if you can't tell already, I'm REALLY looking forward to this story!

Capt

 

[alrem]

Those are great references! Thanks!

Please dont push too much in finding those books. It may consume your time more than you can give.

I'm researching for it anyway. And if I dont find any, I'm sure I can twist the story without it.

Actually, I just find out that their lower body armor were connected in their breast plate armor. So technically, Greek soldiers are wearing one piece of metal plated dress as an armor.

Your comments really inspires me to do it better

 

[TheCaptain]

Those are great references! Thanks!

Please dont push too much in finding those books. It may consume your time more than you can give.

I'm researching for it anyway. And if I dont find any, I'm sure I can twist the story without it.

Actually, I just find out that their lower body armor were connected in their breast plate armor. So technically, Greek soldiers are wearing one piece of metal plated dress as an armor.

Your comments really inspires me to do it better

That's great, I really am excited about this idea and will try to help you out as best I can...

I'm glad too that my encouragement has been appreciated, I know how important a few kind words are to an up-and-coming author!

Thank-YOU for deciding to use this wonderful idea!

Capt

 

[Shendude]

Y'know, this is weird. I just finished reading Olympos by Dan Simmons, the sequel to his novel Illium, which take a rather interesting approach to the Trojan War.

They're great books, and you might pick up some useful info on the Trojan War.

 

[alrem]

Y'know, this is weird. I just finished reading Olympos by Dan Simmons, the sequel to his novel Illium, which take a rather interesting approach to the Trojan War.

They're great books, and you might pick up some useful info on the Trojan War.

That's nice, thanks for the info

I've already finished the first chapter but I'm still doing some retouching... (Editing my own work)

After this I'm going to submit it to the volunteer editor's if there's anyone willing

 

[TheCaptain]

That's nice, thanks for the info

I've already finished the first chapter but I'm still doing some retouching... (Editing my own work)

After this I'm going to submit it to the volunteer editor's if there's anyone willing

I've never bothered to edit anyone else's work before but in this case would be happy to make an acception, if you're willing to accept a first-time editor

I reckon I can do a good job of it though, just email or pm it to me if you would like, alrem

Capt

 

[alrem]

I'm also about to ask you the same favor captain... and I'm very very glad that you want to accept my story for editing. This is just the first time that I'm going to write a story so I guess you're help will give the best out of it.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

After I finished my editing I will send it to you immediately. I'll just PM you to ask the format you want (.txt, .rtf or .doc).

 

[TheCaptain]

I'm also about to ask you the same favor captain... and I'm very very glad that you want to accept my story for editing. This is just the first time that I'm going to write a story so I guess you're help will give the best out of it.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

After I finished my editing I will send it to you immediately. I'll just PM you to ask the format you want (.txt, .rtf or .doc).

Great

Well, pass it along whenever you like. My preferred format is .doc

Cheers

Capt