Monday, December 3, 2007

A W00den Horse

The story of this "myth" began with a boy named Paris son of King Priam and soon ruler of Troy he was given the choice by Zeus to give a golden apple "To The Fairest" of all the goddess. Paris choice was not base on this though for the the godesses were bribing.
Hera (Queen of the Gods) offered him power and might and be the powerfulest king in the world.
Athene (Goddess of Wisdom) offered him knowledge everything lore in the world he shall know.
Aphrodite (Goddess of Love) offered him something only in a whisper...but when Paris heard what she said he quickly relinquish the apple to her. What she had offered him was that he can have any women his heart desired.

Aphrodite also gave him a suggestion for the most dessirable women on earth, Helen a girl with radiant struture of a goddess herself, for her parents were Zeus who had fallen in love with Leda a mortal women.

Paris rode then to Sparta where Helen was married to King Menelaus who ruled there, but he was gone during the time Paris arrived. Helen met Paris at a state banquet, and by the next sunrise she was on her way to Troy.

When King Menelaus got back and found his wife gone a thousand kings were summoned by him to go to Troy and return Helen. Yet thus the Greek spent 10 long years outside the wall unable to conquer the city.

This was where Ulysses came in and made a plan of building a giant horse as a gift to the Trojan's, a group of men were to stay inside of the hollow horse's belly while the rest rode away from Troy on ships only to sneak back hiding in a nearby cove.

When the Trojan's saw the horse they celebrated thinking only that they have won and the Greek's have given up.
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They celebrated and drink all day till dusk came, in which the soldiers inside the horse came out murdered the guards of Troy let open the gate for the men outside waiting to come in, the warriors of Troy were drunk at the time and unaware of what had happen. Soon the city was on fire the Trojans died but its women and children were led into slavery.

And Ulysses began his voyage home after ten years riding with three ships with all the loot and riches of Troy, but he did not know it would take him ten more years before his voyage was over.