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...Troy, as a prize for judging her the fairest of the goddesses; Paris’ abduction of Helen is the catalyst for the Trojan War. The Greek hero Menelaus is a Spartan king and the husband of Helen, whom Paris carried off to Troy. It was this abduction that led to the Trojan War. The Trojan prince Paris is the son of king Priam and queen Hecuba. At the wedding of Peleus and...

...Troy, leaving his wife Penelope and infant son Telemachus behind. He has a reputation for clever speaking and cunning; the ruse of the Trojan Horse by means of which the Greeks finally sacked Troy after ten years of war is said to have been his idea. The Odyssey tells of Odysseus’ adventures on his journey home from Troy – which takes him ten more year – and his...