Agamemnon is forced to ransom a captive woman back to her father, a priest of Apollo, after plague breaks out in the Greek camp. In the tenth year of the Greeks' desultory campaign against Troy and its neighbours, a dispute arises between Agamemnon the High King and Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors. Thetis puts a spell on her son Prince Achilles to hide him among the daughters of King Lycomedes of Scyros, but Odysseus the Resourceful discovers him by a ruse, and Achilles chooses short life and immortal fame at Troy (2). Her husband King Menelaus and his brother the High King Agamemnon summon Helen's former suitors from all over Greece, who at the time of Helen's betrothal swore to support her husband. Paris persuades Helen to elope with him, against her better judgement (1). She causes Paris to return to Troy and be recognised and welcomed by his royal family, then to sail to Sparta to see the unsurpassed beauty of its young queen, Helen. He gives it to Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, who promises him an equally beautiful wife. After many years, they select Paris, a Trojan prince raised as a herdsman, to judge the winner of the apple. At the wedding of King Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis, the goddess of discord leaves a golden apple inscribed "To the fairest," which instantly begins a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite.
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