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At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the goddess Eris, who had not been invited, threw an apple inscribed "For the Fairest." In the judgment of Paris, a prince of Troy, Aphrodite proved the winner over Athena and Hera.

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As a result of selecting Aphrodite, Paris is allowed to marry the most beautiful woman in the word: Helen, who is already the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta.

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Menelaus, along with his brother Agamemnon, lead the other Greeks to Troy in an attempt to wage war on the city and secure Helen's return.

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Book 1 (10 Days Before the Start of the Iliad)

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Book 1 (10 Days Before the Start of the Iliad)

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The priest Chryses goes to Agamemnon in a bid to secure the return of his daughter Chryseis, whom Agamemnon had enslaved as a war-prize. Agamemnon rejects the priest's offer of ransom and sends him away, after which he prays for Apollo to send a plague upon the Greek camp.

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Thetis explained sorrowfully, what had happened at the battle to his mother and she comforted him and gave him the advice to ask zeus to help heal the debt he owes for saving the trojans.

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Odysseus gathered an army of people to assist with returning Chryseis to her father and rightful home.

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Zeus sends a dream to Agamemnon in which the Greek chief is encouraged to pursue another battle, which he does.

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Paris, although he does not lack in fear when it came to kidnapping a foreign king's wife, he becomes petrified when he becomes aware that he has to participate in the duel.

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When his brother, Hector, finds out about his cowardice, he becomes enraged. Hector tell Paris that he needs to step up and participate since he has put all his peers in danger for a women.

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When the duel finally occurred Paris won the right to shoot first. He shot with good aim but his force was not enough. He spear did not pierce through Menelaus shield. Menelaus spear on the other hand went through Paris's shield and hit him in the ribs

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Paris, when struck by Menelaus's spear, was weakened. He was unable to fight back when Menelaus hit him with a sword over the head and began to drag him towards the Greek line.

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Suddenly, Aphrodite saved Paris from certain death. She caused his helmet to fail, freeing him. Then she created a fog masking him from the Greeks. She spirited him back to his palace with Helen, his wife.

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Menelaus after struggling and failing to find paris in the group of Trojans. His brother Agamemnon declared the Greeks a clear winner.

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Zeus, although he believes that Menelaus has won the duel, calls a council of the gods in hopes of finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Hera and Athena's continued anger at the Trojans, however, makes this impossible.

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At Athena's urging, the Trojan archer Pandarus shoots Menelaus with an arrow, barely grazing him but providing justification for the renewal of hostilities between the two sides.

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Pandarus hit the best of the greek, Diomedes, but when he celebrated to early Diomedes came back with a venges and killed Pandarus.

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But in the process of killing Pandarus put many other in people in the line of death. He nearly hit Aeneas, but when his mother Aphrodite saved him, it anger Diomedes. He then struck Aphrodite in the wrist causing her to drop Aeneas.

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When Apollo became aware of the situation with a wounded a Aphrodite he came to the rescue with horses, and brought them back to safety.

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Dione complained to her other as usual about the injury see had acquired. Her mother responded with an eloquent answer, her injury was not the first of it kind, many people before her own have suffered from the similar injuries.

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Athena and Hera became very concerned, and quickly the gods intervened. They joined the battle. With a hunger to win. Hera joined the battle as a senator. As athena was reassuring diomedes, who managed to wound ares. Soon after, all the god and goddesses return to their rightful home, Olympus.