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    Summary of The Trojan War: Lesson 6

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    The Trojan War began when Paris, prince of Troy, chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess and was rewarded with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Helen was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When Paris and Helen fled to Troy together, Menelaus demanded their return. After Troy refused, the Greeks launched a decade-long siege. Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, initially refused to fight but rejoined after his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector. Achilles then killed Hector. The war ended when the Greeks tricked the Trojans into taking a large wooden horse inside the city walls, from which Greek soldiers emerged and destroyed Troy from within

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    The Trojan War began when Paris, prince of Troy, chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess and was rewarded with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Helen was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When Paris and Helen fled to Troy together, Menelaus demanded their return. After Troy refused, the Greeks launched a decade-long siege. Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, initially refused to fight but rejoined after his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector. Achilles then killed Hector. The war ended when the Greeks tricked the Trojans into taking a large wooden horse inside the city walls, from which Greek soldiers emerged and destroyed Troy from within

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    The Trojan War began when Paris, prince of Troy, chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess and was rewarded with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Helen was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When Paris and Helen fled to Troy together, Menelaus demanded their return. After Troy refused, the Greeks launched a decade-long siege. Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, initially refused to fight but rejoined after his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector. Achilles then killed Hector. The war ended when the Greeks tricked the Trojans into taking a large wooden horse inside the city walls, from which Greek soldiers emerged and destroyed Troy from within

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    Summary of The Trojan War: Lesson 6

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    The Trojan War began when Paris, prince of Troy, chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess and was rewarded with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Helen was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When Paris and Helen fled to Troy together, Menelaus demanded their return. After Troy refused, the Greeks launched a decade-long siege. Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, initially refused to fight but rejoined after his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector. Achilles then killed Hector. The war ended when the Greeks tricked the Trojans into taking a large wooden horse inside the city walls, from which Greek soldiers emerged and destroyed Troy from within

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    Summary of the Trojan War Lesson 6

    4. e. Summary of the Trojan War

    Priam, King of Troy, had a son with his wife Hecuba. It was prophesized that this son,
    Paris, should be killed at birth because he would one day grow up and destroy the city.
    Before this could happen, he was rescued by shepherds and taken away. When he was
    grown, he returned to the city and was recognized. He rejoined the royal family.

    Peleus fell in love with Thetis, a sea nymph. Zeus was also interested in Thetis but
    allowed Peleus and Thetis to marry because of a prophesy that she would give birth
    to a son greater than his father. Eris, the goddess of strife, was not invited to the
    birth celebration. She showed up anyway, bringing with her a golden apple with the
    words “For the fairest” written on it. Zeus’ wife Hera and his daughters Aphrodite
    and Athene each claimed the apple. They asked Zeus to decide who deserved it. He
    refused to get involved and the job fell to Paris. Each of the goddesses promised to
    give Paris a gift if he would pick her. Hera promised power, Athene promised military
    glory and wisdom, and Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful woman in the
    world to wed. Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite.

    At this time, Helen, a mortal daughter of Zeus, was considered the most beautiful
    woman in the world. She was the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Helen’s sister
    Clytaemnestra was married to Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon, King of Argos. He was
    the most powerful king in Greece. As Aphrodite had promised, Paris and Helen fell in
    love and ran away to Troy, taking much of the city’s treasure with them. The Spartans
    sent a delegation requesting the return of Helen and the treasure but the Trojans
    refused. The Greeks sent an army to attack Troy, thus beginning the Trojan War.

    According to prophesy, Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, would die in battle. To
    protect him, Thetis bathed him in the waters of the river Styx when he was a baby.
    This made him invulnerable to any weapon. When the war began, Agamemnon was
    told that he could not conquer Troy without Achilles. Odysseus tricked Achilles
    into joining Agamemnon. Achilles was accompanied by his good friend Patroclus as
    Agamemnon sailed with one thousand Greek ships to Troy. When his appeal for the
    return of Helen and the treasure was denied by King Priam, the Greek army set up a
    siege that lasted many years.

    The Iliad begins in the tenth year of the siege. Agamemnon and Achilles have a bitter
    quarrel and Achilles refuses to fight for the Greeks. After which Hector, Priam’s
    son breaks through the Greek’s defenses and sets their ships on fire. Achilles’ friend
    Patroclus is killed in this fight by Hector. The Greeks beg Achilles to return to the
    battle. Outraged by the death of Patroclus, Achilles decides to rejoin the Greeks.
    After a fierce fight, Achilles kills Hector and drags his body around the city. A grieving
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    Priam asks Achilles to give him the body of his son in return for a ransom. Achilles
    agrees.

    The prophesy about Achilles dying in battle comes true. When Apollo’s mother
    dipped him in the river she held him upside-down by his heel creating a vulnerable
    spot where the waters of the River Styx did not touch him. Paris shoots an arrow into
    Achilles heel and kills him.

    The Greeks then devise a plan to take the city. They build a wooden horse and fill
    it with soldiers. Leaving the horse in front of the city gates, they then pretend to sail
    away leaving one greek soldier Sinon behind. He convinces the Trojans that the horse
    is a gift to Athene. The Trojans are warned by Laocoon not to trust Sinon, but they do
    not listen. They tear down part of the city wall and drag the horse inside. After a big
    celebration, the Trojans go to bed and the Greek soldiers creep out of the horse, open
    the city gates, and signal to the Greek army to return. The city is completely destroyed
    and Helen is taken back to Menelaus.

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