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Who was the Trojan war over?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

According to Homer, who wrote the Iliad which described the war, the cause of the Trojan War was the taking away of Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta (now part of Greece) by Paris of Troy. Menelaus' brother Agamemnon led the huge seaborne expedition to Troy to get her back and punish the Trojans. As a result Helen has been described as the "face which launched a thousand ships"

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17y ago

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