Most of us be familiar with the story of the Trojan War, how Paris of Troy kidnapped Helen, the most gorgeous woman on earth, and how a substantial war, complete with divine involvement, ensued. However how close is this story to realism? Was there actually a woman whose beauty could start a war? A few believe that this wasn't far from the reality. Around the time of the Trojan War, respect was very significant; moreover a few people would do anything to reinstate it if wrecked. Trojan War in Greek myth is the legendary war waged by the Greeks against the city of Troy. The ritual is believed to reveal a real war flanked by the Greeks of the late Mycenaean period and the people of the Troad, or Troas, in Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. Contemporary archaeological excavations have revealed that Troy was shattered by fire sometime between 1230 BC and 1180 BC, and that the warfare may have resulted from the craving either to loot the wealthy city or to put an end to Troy's viable power of the Dardanelles. Legendary accounts of the war traced its derivation to a golden apple, adorned "for the fairest" and frightened by Eris, goddess of disagreement, among the divine guests at the wedding of Peleus, the ruler of Myrmidons, and Thetis, one of the Nereids.
The gift of the apple to Aphrodite, divinity of love, by Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, protected for Paris the support of the goddess and the love of the attractive Helen of Troy, wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. Helen went with Paris to Troy, and a voyage to retaliate the wound to Menelaus was placed under the command of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Agamemnon's force included many famous Greek heroes, the most noted of whom were Achilles, Patroclus, the two Ajaxes, Teucer, Nestor, Odysseus, and Diomedes. (Emanuel Levy (2004)
