Reading Notes- How the War With Troy Began Part A

The Iliad retold by Alfred J. Church (1907).

This tale recounts the events that started off the great battle between Troy and Sparta. It all started when Troy a prince married Helen. The King had made all the princes of Greece promise not to fight over his daughter once she married. They must not steal away his daughter from the prince she marries. This was all good and well until he passed away. In comes Sparta a young prince who was son of Priam, King of Troy. This Paris carried off the Fair Helen, and with her much gold and many precious stones. Menelaüs and his brother Agamemnon sent to the princes of Greece and said, "Now you must keep your oath, and help us to get back the Fair Helen." So they all came to a place called Aulis, with many ships and men. Others also who had not taken the oath came with them. The greatest of these chiefs were these: Diomed, son of Tydeus; Ajax the Greater and Ajax the Less, and Teucer the Archer, who was brother of Ajax the Greater; Nestor, who was the oldest man in the world; the wise Ulysses; Achilles, who was the bravest and strongest of all the Greeks, and with him his dear friend Patroclus. For nine years the Greeks tried breaking down the walls but they could not. as they had been away from their homes for all this time, they came to be in great want of food and clothes and other things. So they left part of the army to watch the city, and with part they went about and spoiled other cities. This is where the tale just kicks off but the beginning had me so intrigued. I have never been one to be a huge fan of Greek mythology but the intertwining of kings and princes made this story very intriguing. 


 


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