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Achilles, distraught and wanting to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus, returns to the war and kills Hector. He drags Hector's body behind his chariot to the camp and then around the tomb of Patroclus.
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Ares led the Trojans, but was wounded by Diomedes and Athena, and driven from the battlefield. Homer, Iliad 4.
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The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis is a celebration of the nude. ... Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons, fell in love with Thetis, the beautiful queen of the Nereid, who were sea nymphs. All the gods except Eris, the goddess of discord, were invited to the wedding. Many of them can be identified in the painting.
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THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos--Aphrodite, Hera and Athena--for the prize of a golden apple addressed "To the Fairest." ... Zeus was asked to mediate and he commanded Hermes to lead the three goddesses to Paris of Troy to decide the issue.
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Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta (a fact Aphrodite neglected to mention), so Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him - according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly. ... When Paris took her to Troy, Menelaus invoked this oath.
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Trojan War, in Greek mythology, war between the Greeks and the people of Troy . The strife began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen , wife of Menelaus of Sparta. When Menelaus demanded her return, the Trojans refused. Menelaus then persuaded his brother Agamemnon to lead an army against Troy.
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Odysseus and Achilles attempt to avoid the war by subterfuge. Was the king of Ithaca. He pretended to be insane by plowing a field and seeding it with salt. But Agamemmnon's envoys took his infant son and put him in the way of the plow so Odysseus would have have to move which he did and than had to join the war.
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GODS who were uncommitted were: Zeus, Hades, Hermes, Iris, Persephone and Demeter. GODS who supported the Trojans were: Aphrodite, Apollo, Poseidon, and (for a while) Athena.
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