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The two Greek Gods, Peleus and Thetis were getting married, and to celebrate, the King of the Gods, Zeus, held a wedding banquet to celebrate the occassion. However, Eris, Goddess of Strife, was uninvited. Angered by this, she threw the Apple of Eden into the celebration for the 'fairest one' to receive. The goddesses, Athena, Hera and Aphrodite all claimed the Apple for themselves. They asked Zeus to choose who was the fairest, Zeus, reluctant to choose one goddess over the other, asked Paris, a mortal person to choose. Paris heard all of the goddesses' claims to the Apple on Mount Ida, and each goddess attempted to bribe Paris with different gifts, such as Paris being offered the love of the world's most beautiful women from Aphrodite and Hera offered to make him King of Europe and Asia. Paris chose Aphrodite and the love of the most beautiful woman, who was Helen of Troy. | The two Greek Gods, Peleus and Thetis were getting married, and to celebrate, the King of the Gods, Zeus, held a wedding banquet to celebrate the occassion. However, Eris, Goddess of Strife, was uninvited. Angered by this, she threw the Apple of Eden into the celebration for the 'fairest one' to receive. The goddesses, Athena, Hera and Aphrodite all claimed the Apple for themselves. They asked Zeus to choose who was the fairest, Zeus, reluctant to choose one goddess over the other, asked Paris, a mortal person to choose. Paris heard all of the goddesses' claims to the Apple on Mount Ida, and each goddess attempted to bribe Paris with different gifts, such as Paris being offered the love of the world's most beautiful women from Aphrodite and Hera offered to make him King of Europe and Asia. Paris chose Aphrodite and the love of the most beautiful woman, who was Helen of Troy. | ||
There was one problem with Paris having the love of Helen, Helen was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris travelled to the city of Sparta under the guise of a diplomatic mission and took Helen. Just before Helen set eyes on Paris to take her back to Troy, Eros, also known as Cupid shot her with an arrow of love. Helen immediatly fell in love with Paris, but when they set off to travel back to Troy, Hera who was still jealous after she did not receive the Apple of Eden sent a storm and caused the lovers to land in Egypt. Eventually they again set sail for Troy and they landed there. Menelaus still did not know of Helen's abduction because he was in Crete attending the burial of his father. | |||
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The Trojan War was a major military conflict that took place between the city of Troy which was located in Western Turkey and the Greeks. The war is thought to have taken place about 1200B.C and the war ended by the infamous 'Trojan Horse' which was used by the Greeks to infiltrate the city of Troy and to slaughter all the Trojans inside the city.
The Start of the War
The two Greek Gods, Peleus and Thetis were getting married, and to celebrate, the King of the Gods, Zeus, held a wedding banquet to celebrate the occassion. However, Eris, Goddess of Strife, was uninvited. Angered by this, she threw the Apple of Eden into the celebration for the 'fairest one' to receive. The goddesses, Athena, Hera and Aphrodite all claimed the Apple for themselves. They asked Zeus to choose who was the fairest, Zeus, reluctant to choose one goddess over the other, asked Paris, a mortal person to choose. Paris heard all of the goddesses' claims to the Apple on Mount Ida, and each goddess attempted to bribe Paris with different gifts, such as Paris being offered the love of the world's most beautiful women from Aphrodite and Hera offered to make him King of Europe and Asia. Paris chose Aphrodite and the love of the most beautiful woman, who was Helen of Troy.
There was one problem with Paris having the love of Helen, Helen was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris travelled to the city of Sparta under the guise of a diplomatic mission and took Helen. Just before Helen set eyes on Paris to take her back to Troy, Eros, also known as Cupid shot her with an arrow of love. Helen immediatly fell in love with Paris, but when they set off to travel back to Troy, Hera who was still jealous after she did not receive the Apple of Eden sent a storm and caused the lovers to land in Egypt. Eventually they again set sail for Troy and they landed there. Menelaus still did not know of Helen's abduction because he was in Crete attending the burial of his father.