the Trojan war
The Trojan War was between the Greeks and the Trojans. The Trojans had kidnapped the Greeks princess Helen. The war had lasted 10 years from 1194 to 1184 BC. The Greeks would camp out the walls of Troy they would fight and many men died on both sides. They would fight non-stop for weeks and months day and night. People believe that this war started when a Greek king invited all the gods to his wedding except Eris the goddess of discord. Eris came to the wedding and threw a golden apple across the room the apple said for the fairest. The three most beautiful goddess at the wedding admired the apple Hera the wife of Zeus, Athene the goddess of heroism, and Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty. They had asked Zeus to decide which of them should have the apple but Zeus told them to take this discussion to Paris . Paris was a prince of the city of Troy. In order to win the apple the three goddess had to bribe him to win the apple Hera offered him the richest and the most powerful kingdom to rule, Athene offered to make him a great leader and general, and Aphrodite offered him to marry the most beautiful women on the planet. Paris chose Aphrodite and gave her the apple. Soon after Aphrodite kept her promise and took him to go see Helen. Aphrodite did not know that Helen was married to Menelaus a king. Then Aphrodite made Helen fall in love with Paris and they left to Troy .