Offering Paris the most beautiful human woman, Aphrodite succeeded in buying Paris's vote. So the Trojans went to visit Helen and her husband, Menelaos, at their home in Sparta, and at the end of the visit, Paris took Helen back to Troy with him. Menelaos was not satisfied with this arrangement, so his brother, Agamemnon, rounded up warriors from all over Greece to go over to Troy to get Helen back, and to kill Trojans, and to get glory, and . . . to steal away everything they could get their hands on. The Iliad is not the story of the Trojan War, but rather the story of a brief period when Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek forces, and Achilles, the best Greek warrior, had a disatrous conflict over honor and the spoils of war. As the Iliad begins, the Trojan War has been going on for approximately nine years, and there is no end in sight.
Nerves are perhaps a bit frayed.
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