The Trojan War
I am doing my report on what happened before and during the Trojan War. The Trojan War was a war that Greece and Troy fought. The story of Troy is over 3,000 years old. The ancient Greeks sang the story of the war from memory. This war involves gods, half-gods, and mortals. The first book of the Iliad and the Odyssey was written in English in 1475. Most people have heard the ending, but the way it started should have been a happy thing, but it ended up bad.Hecuba, the queen of Troy, had a baby. Prophecy said that the baby would someday burn Troy down. So, when the baby was born, the King took the baby and went to kill it, but he couldn't. Then he gave it to a servant to kill. The servant took it to the top of a mountain and left it there to die. Then, when he returned five days later, he saw the baby being nursed by a female bear. He thought the baby was destined to live, so he secretly raised the baby. The baby's name was Paris. When he grew up he was a cowherd. Now this boy was a very good judger; he judged contests between bulls. Zeus, the ruler of Mount Olympus (also known as the god of lightning), noticed that Paris was a very good judger. What he noticed came in useful during a wedding he went
He did this because if he had picked any one of the men, the other ones might try to kill him. " So Patroclus went out to fight and put Achilles armor on so he would look like Achilles and so the Greeks would be motivated and the Trojans would flee. So in doing this, if somebody took Helen, everybody who signed the contract would get her back for her husband. King Menelaus came to visit King Priam. A long time ago, Helen's father made all men that wanted to marry her sign a contract that they would protect her at any cost. Hector found Paris sleeping in Helen's chamber. The people thought that since the priest didn't want the horse in Troy, and the snakes ate him, that must be the gods' sign saying bring the horse in Troy. The Trojans began to burn one of the Greek ships and there was a big dust cloud. The next day, the Greeks started to sail off in surrender. So the Greeks and the Trojans called it a draw. So he remembered Paris was a good judger, so he gave to apple to Paris to pick which goddess should have it. They agreed and sent Ajax out to fight Hector; they fought for hours and no one was winning. Menelaus was just about to have Paris killed when Aphrodite made Paris invisible and took him inside the gates of Troy. After the Greeks landed, Palamedes was falsely accused of being a traitor because there was gold planted under his tent and, supposedly, Priam was paying him to help Troy.
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