Books Two and Three

Paris taking Helen
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/question-of-the-week-is-beauty-a-curse/

Superstitions some people may say, but to me, superstations are like a piece of writing. A piece of information, that when printed and released into the world, they cannot be changed or set into a different path. This makes them like fact. I was praying to Apollo and he showed me the most disturbing vision of a water snake coming out of the water. It killed and ate a nest of nine helpless sparrows! I can't quite remember where I heard that this was a bad omen, but Apollo put into my head that Troy would fall in nine years! Could Achilles wrath really grow to be that much of a problem? Though my city is surrounded by giant walls, I cannot help but shake the feeling that we could very well be in danger. I really hope that was just a mistake. Great Apollo, please hear my prayers. Let that vision just be a warning, not a happening.

Great. My foolish brother-in-law Paris had to go steal Helen from Menelaus. Sure, the poor girl is much better off here in the palace of Priam, but this is not going to turn out well for Troy. Achilles is on the side of the Greeks, sort of, and with the earlier vision I had, I fear this may be the act of destiny.


Fighting has began, and Menelaus has challenged Paris to a duel. Up above on the wall, I looked down upon a heart pounding fight between the two men. Just between us, the fight was not even vary entertaining, for the two weren't necessarily the best fighters. Though, even so Paris did go and start this whole thing, I did fear for his life. Menelaus had Paris down on the ground, dragging him by his helmet, but by some miracle the strap on his helmet snapped, freeing him. Though soon after that, Paris was gone! He just disappeared into thin air! And out of disqualification, Menelaus won, securing the fate of war.



Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
     Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
     majority of the information in my characters blog post.