In Greek Mythology, The Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Greek after Paris of Troy who took Helen from her husband Meneleaus, King of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek Mythology and has been narrated best through Homer's Iliad.

The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses  Hera, Athena&Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "For the Fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris of Troy who judged that Aphrodite , as the fairest should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful woman fall in love with Paris who took her Troy.


                                           


Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troop to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris's insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.

The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods wrath. Although victorious, most heroes and Greek soldiers either never returned home or returned after many adventures, as the gods were infuriated.

The Trojan War marked the end of the Heroic Age of Man, according Hesiodus, and the transition of the World to the Iron Age.