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The evil goddess, Eris is angry because she did not get invited to the wedding of King Peleus and Thetis. She threw a golden apple with the writing "For the Fairest" on it. All the goddesses wanted it but it came down to Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.

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They asked Zeus to decide who got the apple but he said he would have nothing to do with it. He said for them to go to Mount Ida, where they would meet prince Paris to decide.

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Paris was a coward so he picked Aphrodite. This is the reason why the Trojan War began.

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Instead of Paris picking the goddess who got the apple by her beauty, he considered bribes that were made to him by the goddesses. Hera: to be Lord of Europe and Asia, Athena: That he would lead Troy victory against Greece and lay it in ruins. Aphrodite: that the fairest woman on earth would be his to keep for himself.

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Aphrodite had to pay her bribe to give Paris the most beautiful women in the world. This women was known as Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda.

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The goddess led Paris to Sparta where Helen and her husband Menelaus were. Menelaus, trusting Paris, left Paris at his house to go to Crete. Paris then kidnapped Helen. This caused the king to call all of Greece for help.

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The argument between Achilles and Agamemnon. The argument was about the daughter of Apollo's priest, Chryseis, whom the Greeks stole and gave to Agamemnon. Her father begged him to let her go but he refused. Her father prayed to Apollo. Apollo then shot fiery arrows on the Greek army that caused many men to die. Calchas said that Chryseis would need to be returned to her father. Everyone agreed accept Agamemnon.

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After Chryseis returned, Agamemnon sent to of his men to take Achilles prize away from him, Briseis. That night, Achilles mother visited him. She was as angry as him and told him to stop fighting for the Greeks. Then she went to Zeus and asked him to let the Trojans win the war. Zeus finally agreed. So began the war to be fought in Olympus.

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After Apollo had deserted the Greek army a great battle followed. In this battle the armies stopped fighting and drew back. In between them was Paris and Menelaus. They fought and Menelaus almost won and would have led Greece to victory if Aphrodite hadn't came, catching Paris in a cloud and taking him back to Troy.

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After Menelaus had gone to look for Paris, Agamemnon spoke to both armies and said that Menelaus had won and they give Helen back. Hera said otherwise. She wanted Troy ruined and until then the war couldn't end. She told Athena to persuade Pandarus to shoot at Menelaus.

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Since the Greeks didn't have their hero Achilles, The Greeks were not much of a match for the Trojans. Hector was going back into battle.

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Zeus remembered the promise he made the Achilles mother and he ordered all the immortals to stay in Olympus. Zeus went down to help the Trojans. Hector led the Trojans so well that they drew the Greeks almost back to their ships.

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Hera didn't approve of Zeus helping the Trojans. She made a plan they would give the "upper hand" back to Greece.

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She made her self look so pretty that he would not resist her. When Zeus held her she would make him fall asleep and he would forget the Trojans.

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Troy would have would have fallen that day if Zeus didn't wake up. Zeus reprimanded Hera but she blamed it on Poseidon. Zeus then had Poseidon yanked from battle. Then the Greeks were losing once again.

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Achilles best friend Patroclus, could not stay away from the battle. He offered Achilles that he would go fight. He would wear his armor so the Trojans would think it was Achilles. Patroclus did this and fought like Achilles would and everyone though it was him. But then he met Hector and Hector knew it wasn't Achilles. Hector speared him and he died.

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After Achilles died the greeks didn't have any word from their prophet to what the gods would tell to do. The Greeks captured Helenus and he told him the only way the that Troy could be defeated was to fight the Trojan with the bow and arrow of Hercules.  They stole the weapons from him but they couldn't just leave him there so they persuaded himto come with them. When Philoctetes came back he was healed and one of the first people he wounded with his arrow was Paris.

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Troy fell because the Greeks learned that they were vulnerable to defeat if they did not have a sacred image of Athena with them. Odysseus had a plan. He would have a craftsman make a huge wooden horse that the Warriors and himself would hide in. Athena was made a the theft of her portrait and the way to appease her was with him as a sacrifice. When they went to sleep in their houses, the warriors in the horse set a blaze to all of Troy and killed all the men and sold the women and children as slaves. That was the end of Troy and the Trojan War.