Achilles agrees, and Patroclus leads the Greeks to push back the battle all the way to the Scaean Gate in Troy’s walls. Patroclus, Achilles’s best friend, sees that the Greeks are losing and asks to wear Achilles’s armor to battle to scare the Trojans into thinking Achilles has returned.
Hector leads the Trojans all the way to the Greek ships. The battle continues, Zeus aiding the Trojans and Poseidon aiding the Greeks. The battle rages on, and the Greek warlords get Achilles’s friends to appeal to him, needing him to win the battle, but he refuses to join the fight, still angry. Hector, Paris’s heroic brother and leader of Trojan army, retrieves Paris to rejoin the battle. Paris is tended to in the palace, where Helen suffers due to feeling she caused this war.
Paris and Menelaus duel in single combat, but Aphrodite intervenes to save Paris. In his anger, Achilles removes himself and his army from the battle. Achilles is the son of a sea nymph, Thetis, who dipped him into the River Styx as a baby by the heel, making his entire body invulnerable to death except for his heel. In the tenth year, Greek warrior Achilles gets into a fight with Agamemnon, after Agamemnon states claim on Achilles’s prized slave. Greek ships sail to the walled city of Troy, and begin a battle which lasts ten years. Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon who is the high King of Greece, gets all the Greek Kings to join Menelaus in declaring war with Troy due to loss of Helen. He goes to seek her out, and asks her to return to Troy with him. He hears of a beautiful Queen Helen, recently married to Greek King Menelaus. She promises him the most beautiful wife.Īphrodite sends Paris back to Troy where he is crowned Prince as his family, overjoyed at their reunion, forgets the prophecy. Once he is grown, the quarrelling Goddesses ask him who is the fairest. Instead of being killed, he is taken in by a herdsman and raised in the woods. Paris is foretold to ruin Troy, so Priam has him sent to be killed. In Ancient Greece, Athene, goddess of wisdom, Hera, queen of Gods, and Aphrodite, goddess of beauty quarrel over who is the fairest. Sutcliff recounts an abridged version of the events of Homer’s The Iliad with a third-person omniscient narrator. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Sutcliff, Rosemary.
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