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Eris the goddess of discord was not invited to a wedding banquet and got offended so she threw a golden apple in the middle marked for the fairest.

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It was brought between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena/ Pallas Athena. They asked Zeus to judge and he said to got to mount Ida to prince Paris and see who he thought was the fairest. Paris was asked to not look at the divinities, but listen to the bribes.

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Hera promised to make him a powerful ruler. Athena promised him wisdom and victory in battle. Aphrodite offered Paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world.

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Helen was the fairest woman in the entire world. Aphrodite had to honor her bribe to prince Paris and during Helen and Menelaus' marriage she took her to Paris in troy. That is how the Trojan war started.

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Achilles was the son of Thetis the water nymph. His mother dipped him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable, but in the process she did not let the water touch his ankle leaving that one part of him vulnerable. Only the gods knew his weakness. When Hector killed his best friend Patroclus, Achilles came to battle Hector to avenge the death of his best friend. Hector fell to Achilles, and Achilles was so mad that he did not allow Hector to have a burial of a warrior which caused the gods to despise and want to kill him.

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Achilles fell in love with the daughter of The King of Troy. The king devised a plan to kill Achilles, using his daughter to trick him. Achilles was with his love and Paris came, and then Achilles realized it was a trap. Paris shot his bow and arrow and Apollo guided the arrow to the only spot he could be wounded. When Odysseus and Ajax came to see what happened it was too late and Achilles was dead.

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They put Achilles on a burning pyre. After Achilles was burned they put his ashes and bones in the same urn that held his friend Patroclus

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Odysseus was a family man. He did not want to go to war in Troy because he thought it was stupid. To avoid going to war he acted like he was crazy by planting salt in his fields. The Greeks thought if he truly was crazy he would just run into his son, so they put his son in front of his plowing machine. Odysseus turned out the way so they made him come to Troy. Odysseus was a great warrior and extremely strategic.

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After the deaths of Achilles and Hector the war was at a stalemate. The war was also at a stalemate because the gods were intervening and keeping alive the ones they wanted.

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Odysseus had a plan to get inside the city to defeat troy

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Odysseus had a friend that was skilled in wood and called upon him to make a giant hollow wooden horse to carry the Greeks into the city.

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Odysseus wanted a horse because he knew the Trojans were known for their horse breeding and it would cause them to think the Greeks gave up and the gods had blessed them.

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With the Greek camp deserted and the fleet behind an island the Trojans thought the Greeks accepted defeat and partied and let the horse into the city.

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All the Trojans were drunk which allowed the Greeks to slip out into the city and light it ablaze and massacred all the people.