Awesome+Doctrine

This is my awesome doctrine.



 Some say the Trojan War was started because Peleus, the king of Pithia, and Thetis, the goddess of the sea, were having a feast and something went terribly wrong. This feast was celebrating their wedding andall the gods and goddesses were invited to it except for Eris, the goddess of disagreement and conflict. Eris was furious with all the celebrants for not being invited and thought they deserved to be punished. Eris conjured a golden apple, which on it said, "To the most beautiful." Upon seeing this, several goddesses thought that they should be given the apple. Paris, who was a shepherd in the city of Troy at the time, was chosen to be the judge of the dispute. He was bribed with gifts by each of the goddesses in the contest. Hera, the queen of the gods, promised Paris power, Athena promised wealth, but Aphrodite, who was awarded the golden apple, granted Paris the love of Helen. Helen was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world, was the Queen of Sparta, and already married. Paris went to the city of Troy to compete in the Athletic Games where he was recognized as one of the royal family. After that experience, he traveled to Sparta as a Trojan ambassador to arrange a peace treaty. There, while Helen's husband, Manelaus was away, Helen and Paris fell in love and traveled to Troy together. Maneleus was furious when he found out what had happened and sent a delegation to Troy to demand the return of Helen. When the Trojans refused, Maneleus organized an army of all the previous suitors of Helen, an alliance that was made between them in case anything harmful would happen to Helen. An army of one thousand Greek ships was formed and set off toward Troy. The army settled on the island of Aulis. There the army was delayed in their strategy for a long time because of conflicting winds. Agamemnon, the Commander-in-Chief, had offended the goddess Artemis previously and she sent the winds to make things difficult. He offered his own daughter, Iphigeneia, to be sacrificed to Artemis. Iphigeneia was lured to a mountain top to marry Achilles. At the top of the mountain she was killed by her father, but some say that she was saved at the very last moment by Artemis, and taken as a priestess of Artemis instead of being sacrificed. Artemis reversed the winds and the army continued their voyage to Troy. Thus the Trojan War began. It  was fought for almost a decade, but only during the last year did the war start to lean in favor of the Greeks. In the final year of the war, the Greeks lost several of their heroes, the most grieved for being Achilles: nevertheless, the Greeks still took the city of Troy. At one point during the war the Myrmidons refused to fight due to a feud between Achilles and Agamemnon. The Myrmidons were the group of warriors that was led by Achilles. Patroclus, a close friend and probably a cousin of Achilles, was sent out to protect the Greek ships. While fighting, Patroclus was killed by Hector, prince of Troy. At this Achilles was furious and grief stricken. Patroclus was sent into battle with Achilles armor and when he was killed, Hector removed the armor from his dead body. Achilles, with vengeance in his mind, brought the Myrmidons back into the war. Achilles called on his mother to request that Hephaistos, the lame metal worker of Olympus, to make new armor for Achilles. Achilles traveled to the walls of Troy and called for Hector to come out and fight him. Hector came out to fight and after a strenuous battle, Hector was killed. After Achilles slayed him, he dismembered and disfigured his body by dragging it behind his chariot when he drove back to the Greek camp. Soon Priam, king of Troy, came to the Greek camp to retrieve his son. Priam pleaded excessively for his son’s body so that he could have a proper burial, Achilles granted his request after Priam had humiliated himself by groveling. The Amazonian queen Penthesile and the Ethiopian king Memnon were both killed by Achilles. It was foretold by an Oracle that after the death of the king and queen, Achilles’ death was soon to come. Soon after Paris, prince of Troy, pierced Achilles’ heel with a poison arrow guided by the hand of Apollo. Achilles’ heel was the only vulnerable part of his body because that is where his mother, Thetis, held him when she dipped him in the river Styx. A lot of fighting occurred about control of the corpse of Achilles. Ajax, a great warrior of the Greek forces, carried his body off while Odysseus held back the Trojan troops. It was thought that Achilles armor should go to the greatest warrior. Ajax and Odysseus had a contest for it and Odysseus came out the winner. Ajax was furious with the result, went mad and committed suicide. Close to the end of the war, the tide started to turn toward the Trojans’ side and the Greeks, or some say Odysseus on behalf of the Greeks, organized a plan to trick the Trojans. This plan was said to not succeed unless Neoptolemus, Achilles’ son, joined the war. Odysseus was sent to recruit the son of Achilles; it did not take much persuasion to draft him into the war. The plan was to build a gigantic wooden hoarse that would hold Greek soldiers in its belly and be sent inside the walls of Troy. When the people of Troy were drunk and asleep, the soldiers exited the horse and opened the gates. The rest of the Greek army entered the city and all the people of Troy were murdered. After everyone was dead and the city was ransacked, the soldiers burnt the city to the ground.

After ten years of war, the Greeks overthrew the city of Troy and burned it to the ground. This occurred at the cost of many Greek and Trojan lives, both soldier and civilian. The story of the Trojan War was written in the //Illliad// and the //Odyssey--// both historical relics and literary masterpieces. This war has gone down in history as the greatest endeavor of all time and Achilles the greatest warrior. Forever shall his name be known as such.