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On Mount Olympus, a decadent wedding feast was held and all the gods were invited.

She threw them a golden apple, inscribed with the words 'for the fairest' on it. Being their selfish selves, Hera, Athena and immediately put their names in the running.

Paris visited the palace of Menelaus at Sparta.

Contrary to all the sacred rules of hospitality, Paris seduced the queen and

abducted her back to Troy. The theft of Helen was an act of outrage which invoked

the oath of Tyndareus, requiring the united powers of the Greeks to avenge the

wounded honor of Menelaus and retrieve Helen.

Hermes chose the beautiful young mortal Paris, who

was the son of Priam, the king of Troy. Paris chose Aphrodite

who rewarded her judge by promising him the most beautiful woman on earth,

whom everyone knew to be Helen, the wife of the Greek king Menelaus.

The Greeks traveled to Troy and for nearly ten years, the Greeks unsuccessfully

besieged Troy in the Trojan War. Finally, the Greek warrior, Odysseus, had the idea

to build a large wooden horse, known as the Trojan Horse. The Greeks hid warriors

inside the horse and left it at the gate of Troy