Intro

The war in Troy is a crossroads in Greek mythology, where the passions and weaknesses of gods and humans meet. The archaeological evidence shows that there were in fact more major wars, most of them for economic and trade interests in Ilion, which was another name for Troy. But we will focus on the story passed by word of mouth from generation to generation and describes how more than a thousand ships sailed from mainland Greece to bring back the beautiful Helen ...The Spartan queen that was seduced by the prince of Troy with the help of the goddess Aphrodite.All the Greek kings, who were bound by an oath, had to send forces to flush the disgrace which fell upon the king of Sparta, Menelaus.All of them stood on the battlefield, both the Greeks (Achaeans) and the Trojans, who believed the same gods and had the same customs, traditions and language.In the following chapters you may read about, but also watch through movie scenes and other cinematics Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, Paris, Helen, and many others. Let us see together how it all began ...

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