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The wedding of Peleus and Thetis was celebrated on Mount Pelion by the gods with a great feast. But it was also at this party that Eris threw the fatal Apple that led to the Judgement of Paris, the abduction of Helen, and the Trojan War.
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Helen was abducted by the Trojan prince Paris taken as his prize for choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess in a competition with Athena and Hera at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
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When Aphrodite, the goddess of love, took steps to win a beauty contest judged by Paris, a prince of Troy. If declared the most beautiful goddess, Aphrodite promised to give Paris the most beautiful woman in the world,Helen.
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Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him.
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the day after paris stold helen , menelaus found out shes missing
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Odysseus wanted to avoid being recruited into the Greek army, because he had learned that though the war would last only ten years. and Achilles was disguised as a woman until Odysseus found out.
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Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, to lead an expedition to retrieve her. Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Nestor and Ajax, and accompanied by a fleet of more than a thousand ships from throughout the Hellenic world.
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chryseis is taken from her father and brought to the greek agamemnon
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Chryseis's father, Chryses, who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, Chryses then prays to Apollo, who sends a plague upon the Achaean camp.
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the Greek fleet lands at Troy and Odysseus and Menelaus try to convince King Priam to return Helen. They are unsuccessful and declare war on Troy.