Priam, king of Troy dreams that in the womb of his wife is gestating a torch to burn his domain at birth, goes to the oracle
which warned him to be her son to kill him, otherwise cause the ruin of their country, unable to do it yourself, you ask a pastor of his corned trust your child and bring the heart, the pastor kills a deer and shows her heart by saying it has fulfilled its assignment, the boy grows up raised by a shepherd, winning fame for his innate knowledge of beauty, in the Olympus, the gods gathered at a banquet. are stranded in a discussion facilitated by the goddess Discord, who leaves the table a golden apple with the reading of the most beautiful, so Juno and Aphrodite, claiming for themselves without being able to agree, as no one in the Olympus wish to intervene in the fair, attended by the concerned to seek the famed Paris, to settle the matter by his side the goddesses each promised to judge their eternal favors in exchange for their votes, chose to Juno, who promised he would be favored with unlimited beauty to win the woman he wanted.
At that time Paris, after being recognized by the royal family, is sent by his father as ambassador to neighboring states in search of lasting peace, the beautiful Helen, wife of King Agamemnon, Paris falls in love with who without measuring the some consequences in their ship back to their country, bringing hidden inside the unfaithful queen, sparking the bloodiest wars of invasion, Agamemnon gathers an army to defeat the unassailable ally Troy, among his captains stressed the heroic
Achilles semi god-invulnerable, plunged by his mother Thetis in the Styx leaves only one foot without leaving this part dip without the protection of immortality.
Hector, Priam's son, Army Capt. counsel, ordered the defense of the walled city dating to the
battlefield at the head of his army, while avoiding Achilles, knowing their fate, once Achilles killed Hector in turn succumb, they had had gods, when ruin and afflicted the invading army, Agamemnon consulted the oracle who said there should return to the priestess Briceida to make amends to the gods, taken as booty and given to Achilles as a war trophy, is again returned to the service of his priesthood and Achilles refuses to return to the battlefield, bitter at their loss. Seeing that defeat was imminent without the presence of Achilles, the young and inexperienced cousin Patroclus asks her to lend him his armor so that in the field feel the presence of their champion and the spirit of the warriors rise and achieved a triumph, making only that Hector discovered in the field and give her death, taking his armor as a trophy and displayed it proudly.
Hearing, Achilles death of his cousin, gets angry and once again assumes the captaincy of his army, while knowing their fate, kills Hector in an unequal battle, the gods deceive grasping Hector to see distant things Indeed, facilitating the triumph of Achilles, Hector is dragged allowing the battlefield, without allowing burial, Priam risking his life, comes in the store asking the brave Achilles with tears in their eyes that allow her to bury son, which the captain accepted it gracefully, out of respect to the value of the old king, giving adequate time for the funeral of the vanquished, it is not made, continue to battles and Paris, assured as ever on the fortifications of the city Launches arrows into the body of the hated Achilles, earning the direction of the gods, to heel, the only vulnerable place of the semi-god, killing him, fulfilling his destiny.
No longer masters of the worth of Hector and Achilles, the war dragged on, the Trojans saw the Achaeans, levaba invading army hoisted the anchor and sails, leaving the alleged winner trophy on the beach, a giant wooden horse, amazed wanted to burn it, when an actor made to that end entered the scene, swearing that he had escaped death, being abandoned along with this to the protective gods, to show respect to the city invincible.
Swelling with pride, took the trophy in the safety of its fortifications, celebrating the victory with music and liquor, drunk, could not realize that inside the horse, hiding a few brave soldiers waited patiently for the opportunity to open the gates of the city, allowing the passage of the Achaeans, who advocates taking drunk and unaware, struck at will the proud city, thus the reason the oracle when Priam dreamed that the fruit of the womb of Hecuba, his wife lost her city.
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