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According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus thought of building a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy. Under the leadership of Epeios, the Greeks built the wooden horse in three days
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Eris, the Goddess of Discord, was the only god uninvited. she threw a golden apple into the wedding that said "For the Fairest." Aphrodite, Athena and Hera all wanted the apple, but Zeus would not choose between them.
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Troy has to pick who is the fairest. He chooses Aphrodite because she promised him a beautiful women.
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Helen was the most girl that he is married to.
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Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him
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Menelaus looked for and found her. he decided to kill her for leaving him.when he raised his sword, she started to weep,begging for her life. Menelaus' wrath went away instantly. He took pity on her, and decided to take her back as wife
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Odysseus pretended to be crazy. He put on torn clothes, and tried to sow the land with salt,while plowing the fields with an ox.mother of Achilles disguised her son as a woman,but he was revealed by Odysseus.Odysseus dressed as a merchant.
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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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she has been enslaved, as a war prize, by Agamemnon and refuses to allow her father to ransom her. Apollo then sends a plague sweeping through the Greek armies Agamemnon is forced to give Chryseis back so Agamemnon sends Odysseus to return Chryseis to her father. an act that offends Achilles, who refuses to take further part in the Trojan War. A Greek legend preserved in Hyginus' Fabulae, states that she had a son by Agamemnon
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Chryseis’s father, a man named Chryses who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, begs Agamemnon to return his daughter and offers to pay an enormous ransom. When Agamemnon refuses, Chryses prays to Apollo for help.
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Achilles was enraged. The honor of the leader of the Greeks, Agamemnon, had been assuaged, but what about the honor of the greatest of the Greek heroes Following the dictates of his own conscience, Achilles could no longer cooperate, so he withdrew his troops and sat on the sidelines
