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Eris the goddes of discord , was the only god uninvited. She threw a golden apple into the wedding floor that said ¨for the fairest¨ . Aphrodite Athena and Hera all wanted the apple , but Zeus would not choose between them. None ended getting the apple , Zeus kept it.
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All three were beautiful goddesses with enough vanity to want Paris to pick her . They had tried to get Zeus to pick , but he refused because it would be ungodly like. One goddess was his wife , another was his daughter , and the third was the goddess of beauty
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In Sparta , Menelaus , husban of Helen , treated Paris as a royal guest. However , when Menelaus left Sparta to go to a funeral , Paris abducted Helen. Helen who went willingly also carried off much of Menelaus wealth
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King of Sparta Menelaus comes back from the funeral and notices that Helen (her wife) is missing.
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Since Menelaus ´s wedding , Odysses had married Penelope and fathered a son , and sowed his fields with salt .
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When the Achaeans left for the war , they did not know the path to the battlefield, and accidentally landed in Mysia , Kinged by Telephus , son of heracles , who had led the contingent of Arcadians to settle and have a place to rest and stay. In the battle , Achilles wounded Telephus , who killed the Thersasnder and Telephus felt betrayed.
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Eaight years after the storm had scattered them , the separation of more than a thousand were gathered again. When they all had reached Aulis , the winds ceased.
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The Achaeans besieged troy for nine years . this section of the war is the least thought out among surviving sources , which prefer to talk about events caused and happened in the last years war .
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odysseus was sent to Thrace to return with grain , but came back empty handed , when scorned by palamedes , Odysseus challenged him to do better , Palamedes set out and retured with a shipload of grain .
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Palamedes was challenged to a battle and then had been betrayed to go on a ship that was fake and would sink for his sake of death.
