In the stories of Homer's epics, it was Odysseus who contributed the Trojan Horse to the Greek army that had besieged Troy for ten years, allowing them to breach the city.
But in another play, Philoctetes, Troy's walls had been built by Apollo and Poseidon. Yet Laomedon, Troy's king at the time, refused to pay them their reward. Poseidon then unleashed a sea monster, and for the safety of his kingdom, Laomedon offered up his own daughter. By chance, Heracles happened to pass by and saved the princess.
The Greek Philoctetes had originally been part of the expedition against Troy, but after a venomous snake bit his foot, he was abandoned on Lemnos. He carried an arrow that belonged to Heracles, one that could have brought down Troy's walls, which had been built by Poseidon.
But after suffering for nine years, he refused to hand over the arrow. At the same time, plague began spreading through the Greek camp, and the Trojan Horse was their final move.
When Hector died, the entire city was consumed by grief, including the beautiful Helen. When all of Troy shunned her, only Hector had still treated her kindly. Yet no matter how she wept, nothing could be changed.
People wept for the deaths of heroes and raised their glasses in celebration for the deaths of villains.
When Hector died, the Spartan-Greek allied army was celebrating outside the city. Achilles slit the tendons from Hector's ankle to his heel, leaving his head to drag along the ground behind him. Wearing that magnificent armor, he drove his chariot with a whip beneath Sirius's light, high-spirited amid the swirling dust.
She felt sorrow, and it grew all the heavier when she remembered that she had once been someone who needed to eat Sorrow Worm honey to calm