Eris was furious. She then went on and proceeded to disrupt the banquet. “She threw a golden apple ”for the fairest” among the guests,” (www.royalty.nu/legends/troy.html, 1). Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite also attended the wedding, each thought that she was the fairest of all. They quarreled for a while debating who should get the apple and finally asked Zeus to decide.

Zeus didn’t want to get involved, so he ordered them to Prince Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy in Anatolia. Despite her royal heritage, Paris had been raised as a simple shepherd after his mother learned in a vision that he would cause the destructi

on of Troy. There are many reasons on why Paris was chosen to judge the contest. Many contestants attempted to rig the contest with bribes. Paris went on to award the Apple of Discord to Aphrodite. There was one problem, the most beautiful woman in the world was already married.

After the deaths of Achilles, the Greeks wanted to give up. Then, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus came up with a plan. The Greek army built an enormous wooden horse that Meneleus and other warriors hid inside. The Greeks left the horse at the gates of Troy and sailed away. The Trojans thought this was a gift from the Greeks, and that the Greeks had given in.

Cassandra, Paris’s sister, whom was a priestess with psychic powers, had concluded that the horse was trouble. She attempted to warn her father, but he would not listen. The horse was then brought inside the walls of Troy.

The woman was Helen, a half-mortal daughter of Zeus. King Tyndareus of Sparta was hesitant to let her marry because of his premonition that it would lead to war. Tynadreas convinced Helen’s suitors to swear to protect her and her husband, whoever he may be. Helen eventually went on to marry Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon, the King of Mycenae. After Tyndareus’s passing, Agamemnon became king of Sparta.

The Greeks and Trojans were at war for over ten years. The gods were very

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