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Contest between goddesses Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena to see who was the fairest. The prize was a golden apple and Paris was the one to decide.
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Aphrodite promises Paris can have Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, even though she was already the wife of Menelaus. He still abducts her.
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war waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
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Agamemnon gets Achilles, Odysseus, and many others to fight by his and his brother Menelaus side to go to Troy and take back Helen
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Agamemnon captured a priestess of Apollo. When the Greek leader refused to return the priestess to her father, a plague struck the Achaeans
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Achilles friend from Troy, Patroclus, persuades Achilles to let him lead his troops into battle. But great Trojan hero, Hector, mistakes Patroclus for Achilles and kills him.
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Achilles finds Hector in battle and kills him. Filled with grief and anger for Patroclus he took Hectors dead body and dragged it around on his chariot
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Achilles later was killed from being wounded in the one spot he wasn't immortal, his heel. With the help of Apollo, Paris shot an arrow to his heel.
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After the fall of Achilles, Achaeans believed Odysseus was the hero that came next in stature to Achilles.
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When Paris was in danger of being killed Aphrodite frees him from the grasp of Menelaus and he returns to Helen
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Philoctetes, who had arrows from Hercules shot one at Paris. It barely left a scratch but it was enough to kill the Trojan prince
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Odysseus came up with a way to end the war: the creation of a giant wooden horse filled with Achaeans to be left at the gates of Troy. The Trojans believed the horse was a peace offering and brought it inside their gates. The Trojans celebrated by getting drunk and when they all fell asleep the Achaeans in the wooden horse snuck out and killed of the Trojans men and took the women prisioner.
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The Achaeans began their dangerous voyage back home.