The goddess of Discord, Eris, angry that all the gods but her were invited to the wedding and loving to see mortals argue, flew in anyway and threw on the table a golden apple, marked, “For the most beautiful.” Hera said, “That is for me. At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, an uninvited guest arrived.

Years later, after learning that a child of Thetis, an immortal nymph, and a god would come to overthrow the king of Olympus, the gods Zeus and Poseidon, who both loved her very much, decided she must marry a mortal. He always gave just decisions, and even the gods knew that he was fair and honest. They called him Alexander, which means, “Defender of men.” When everybody was afraid to race or fight with him, he was made the referee of their games. He was strong and bold and liked to fight, to wrestle, and to run with the other young shepherds. Some shepherds found the boy and brought him up as their son. Priam ordered that the child should be taken to Mount Ida, on the eastern side of the kingdom, and left there to die. The king asked an oracle what that dream meant. He was only a few days old when his mother dreamed that he found and took a blazing torch and ran through the city, setting it on fire. One of the sons, named Paris, had a strange history. Priam, king of Troy, lived in a prosperous city called Ilion, with many sons and daughters around him. The Trojan War Part 1: The Apple of DiscordĪdapted from Stories of the Ancient Greeks by Charles D. These two poems are considered classics of Greek literature. An epic poem is a very long adventure story in the form of a poem.

It is believed that his two most famous epic poems, The Iliad, which describes the Trojan War, and The Odyssey, which follows the adventures of Odysseus (Ulysses in Latin) after the war, were written in 7th Century BCE.

The writer of the following two stories is Homer.

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