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Trojan Characters

The document describes five major characters from the Trojan War: Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior whose only weakness was his heel; Helen, the most beautiful woman whose abduction by Paris started the war; Menelaus, Helen's husband who sought to reclaim her; Paris, the Trojan prince who chose Aphrodite's gift of Helen, sparking the conflict; and Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces who united to retrieve Helen for his brother Menelaus.

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Trojan Characters

The document describes five major characters from the Trojan War: Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior whose only weakness was his heel; Helen, the most beautiful woman whose abduction by Paris started the war; Menelaus, Helen's husband who sought to reclaim her; Paris, the Trojan prince who chose Aphrodite's gift of Helen, sparking the conflict; and Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces who united to retrieve Helen for his brother Menelaus.

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Trojan characters

Name at least 5 major characters during the Trojan War and make a narrative description of each
(focus on their strengths and weaknesses) that leads to a bloody war.

1.) The hero Achilles is the son of the mortal Peleus, and Thetis, an immortal sea nymph. He is the
greatest Greek warrior in the story of the Trojan War; the plot of Homer’s Iliad is driven by
Achilles’ anger. When Achilles was born his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping
him in the River Styx, but the heel where she held him remained vulnerable.

2.) Helen is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and is the wife of Menelaus, king
of Sparta. The divine Aphrodite offers Helen to Paris, prince of Troy, as a prize for judging her
the fairest of the goddesses; Paris’ abduction of Helen is the catalyst for the Trojan War.

3.) The Greek hero Menelaus is a Spartan king and the husband of Helen, whom Paris carried off
to Troy. It was this abduction which led to the Trojan War.

4.) The Trojan prince Paris is the son of king Priam and queen Hecuba. At the wedding of Peleus
and Thetis the goddess Eris (‘Strife’) rolled an apple marked ‘for the fairest’ down the aisle;
the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite quarrelled over who should receive the title, and
Zeus entrusted the decision to Paris. Each goddess offered him a prize – he chose Aphrodite,
who had offered him Helen of Sparta, the most beautiful woman in the world, who was
already married to Menelaus. It was Paris’s abduction of Helen which started the Trojan War.

5.) The Greek warrior Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, is the brother of Menelaus and the leader
of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. He raised a coalition of Greek forces to lay siege to Troy
in order to secure the return of Menelaus’ wife Helen after her abduction by the Trojan Paris.

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