an Epilogue

This is how the Achaeans fought and managed to destroy Troy after ten years of siege. The victory, however, was accompanied by numerous atrocities that constituted insult to the gods. For this reason most of them found it difficult and rough to return to their homes and many others did not enjoy the spoils for long. Odysseus wandered for another ten years before returning to his wife in Ithaca. The same trouble would find, Menelaus with Helen. Ajax of Lokris would die on his return, and Agamemnon was to be killed by his wife and her lover back to Mycenae. Others would be able to easily return to their homeland, such as the wise Nestor and Neoptolemus.

This was the Trojan war between the Achaeans and Trojans, which cost the lives of many heroes, but at the same time gloried them over the centuries that followed...

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