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Eris, the evil goddess of discord, was naturally unpopular in Olympus; therefore, she usually was not invited to special events. King Peleus and the sea nymph Tethis were having a wedding celebration and Eris was not invited. Eris was sick of not being invited to things so she crashed the wedding.

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She threw a golden apple which marked who would be the fairest of them all. Of course all the goddesses wanted the apple but it narrowed down to three: Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena.

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The 3 goddesses fight for Zeus's attention (3)

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The 3 goddesses fight for Zeus's attention (3)

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The three goddesses: Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena want the golden apple so they can be marked fairest of them all. They ask for Zeus to declare who the fairest is and he said no and diverted them to another man, a mortal, Paris.

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Paris has to choose who the fairest is (4)

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Paris has to choose who the fairest is (4)

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Paris, a royal prince and the son of the king of Troy, is asked to choose who the fairest is between Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena. All the goddesses offered Paris a wonderful bribe so that he would chose them.

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Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena's bribes (5)

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Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena's bribes (5)

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Hera promised to make him king of Europe and Asia. Athena promised to lead the Trojans to victory against the Greeks. Aphrodite promised to give him the fairest woman in the world to marry. Out of all these choices, Paris chose Aphrodite to be the fairest so that he could have the fairest woman in the land.

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Paris has the fairest in the land, but there's a catch (6)

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Paris has the fairest in the land, but there's a catch (6)

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Since Aphrodite promised him the fairest woman, she had to follow through and give him Helen, the daughter of Zeus and Leda. The only problem was that she was already married to the king of Sparta, Menelaus.

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Paris broke the ties between guest and host when Menelaus offered Paris into his and Helen's home and Paris took Helen and ran away with her. Menelaus came back from a journey only to find that Helen was gone along with Paris. He called upon Greece to help him find his love but this allowed him to configure that Helen and Paris ran away together and he called for war against Troy

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Odysseus, king of the island of Ithaca. He did not want to join the Greek army so he pretended to be mad. Odysseus was convincing them that he was mad because he was plowing the fields with salt instead of seed; therefore, the crops wouldn't grow. The messenger of the Greek army was adamant to prove that Odysseus was not mad because he wanted him to join the army so he put Odysseus's son right in front of the plow he was using to see if he would have the humanity to stop it. Because if he was truly mad, he would not have the humanity to stop the plow and he would just plow over his son. Since Odysseus was not truly mad, he stopped the plow and he was forced to join the army.

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Achilles had a determined fate of dying if he went to Troy and fought in the Trojan war. She tried her best to keep him from fighting by sending him to the court of Lycomedes. There they made him wear women's clothes as a disguise so that he would not be made to fight in the war. Odysseus was sent by the chieftains to find Achilles and he found him after Achilles was seen touching the swords and daggers. Then he brought to fight in the war despite his mother's efforts to keep him from it.

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Paris shot an arrow at Achilles during a hard battle. He guided it so it would shoot right at his heel which was the one place on his body that had not been protected by the river of Styx that his mom dipped him in when he was a baby. He died right away and his ashes were held in the same urn as his friend Patroclus.

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Paris was shot by an arrow and was greatly wounded. He begged the nymph Oenone to cure him so that he could live on. Oenone refused and left him for dead.

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Paris had no great loss on the army of Troy. The Greeks did gain an advantage; however, the Greeks found out that the sacred image of Athena, called the Palladium, had to be destroyed in order to defeat the Trojans.

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The Greek army decided to devise a plan to take the Trojans by surprise. Odysseus hired a skillful worker in wood construct a huge wooden horse. The horse would be hollow so that it could hold a large number of men.

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In the middle of the night, after the Trojan Horse had been welcomed into the city, the Greek army and the chieftains climbed out of the structure and marched throughout Troy. The Trojans used their quick-wittiness to try and trick the Greeks into thinking they were friends when they were actually enemies. Despite their efforts, the Greeks still had their long-lived victory.

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Aphrodite was the only one of the gods that was on the side of the Trojans. Aphrodite also helped Helen find her way back to Menelaus because Paris was dead.

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The morning after the final battle was a dread. The only thing left in Troy was a band of helpless captive women who had no children and were waiting to be taken into slavery.