Who can forget the tales of Troy? The legendary beauty of Helen of Sparta
who, upon falling in love with Prince Paris of Troy fled her husband, King
Menalaus of Sparta. Their love sparked war! Not just between Troy and Sparta,
but allying the individual city states of Greece. The king of each city state
having sworn to defend the husband of the beautiful Helen should such a thing
occur. Joined, Greece launched a thousand ships to sail against Troy which
stood undefeated behind its high, thick walls and lead by the fearless Prince
Hector, Paris' older brother. All over not the beauty of Helen, or the cuckolding
of King Menalaus, Helen's husband, but the vanity of three Olympian Goddess
and a Golden Apple and that was really where it all started.
(See the Mythology story The Trail of Paris link)
What followed was a ten year war chronicled in the saga, the Iliad, written by
Homer.  Another version, a trilogy of Troy, by Euripides,  possibly the ancient
world's equal to our Star War's.
In both works the Gods and Goddess of Olympus played chess with the lives of
the mortals on an Earthly chess board. One day on the side of the Greeks, the
next of the Trojans.  In the end it was the deceit of the Greek's Wooden Horse
that stealthily gained entrance through the impregnable walls of Troy leading to
the defeat and enslavement of the Trojan people.  
Two classical story tellers recount this story and the further saga's of the fates
and adventures of the heroes on both sides after the war.  Both accounts are
Greek tragedies - I preferred a little Happily Ever After Ending - to at least one
previously tragic ending.  
See the review page for the top notch reviews Trojan Gold received in the short
period it was previously available.
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