The Trojan prince committed a serious crime - he violated the law of hospitality and thereby brought a terrible disaster to his native city. Offended, Menelaus, with the help of his brother, the powerful king of Mycenae Agamemnon, gathered a large army to return his unfaithful wife and stolen treasures. All the suitors who once wooed Elena and swore an oath to protect her honor came to the call of the brothers. The most famous Achaean heroes and kings: Odysseus, Diomedes, Protesilaus, Ajax Telamonides and Ajax Oilid, Philoctetes, the wise old man Nestor and many others brought their squads. Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, the most courageous and powerful of the heroes, also took part in the campaign. According to the prediction of the gods, the Greeks could not conquer Troy without his help. Odysseus, as the most intelligent and cunning, managed to persuade Achilles to take part in the campaign, although it was predicted that he would die under the walls of Troy. Agamemnon was chosen as the leader of the entire army, as the ruler of the most powerful of the Achaean states.
The Greek fleet, numbering a thousand ships, assembled at Aulis, a harbor in Boeotia. To ensure the fleet's safe sailing to the shores of Asia Minor, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis. Having reached the Troad, the Greeks tried to return Helen and the treasures by peaceful means. The tried diplomat Odysseus and the offended husband Menelaus went as messengers to Troy. The Trojans refused them, and a long and tragic war began for both sides. The gods also took part in it. Hera and Athena helped the Achaeans, Aphrodite and Apollo helped the Trojans.
Greki ne smogli srazu vzyat' Troyu, okruzhonnuyu moshchnymi krepostnymi sooruzheniyami. Oni postroili na beregu morya vozle svoikh korabley ukreplonnyy lager', stali razoryat' okrestnosti goroda i napadat' na soyuznikov troyantsev. Na desyatom godu osady proizoshlo dramaticheskoye sobytiye, povloksheye za soboy ser'yoznyye neudachi akheytsev v srazheniyakh s zashchitnikami Troi. Agamemnon oskorbil Akhilla, otobrav u nego plennitsu Briseidu, i tot, razgnevannyy, otkazalsya vykhodit' na pole boya. Nikakiye ugovory ne mogli ubedit' Akhilla ostavit' gnev i vzyat'sya za oruzhiye. Troyantsy vospol'zovalis' bezdeystviyem samogo smelogo i sil'nogo iz svoikh vragov i pereshli v nastupleniye, vozglavlyayemyye starshim synom tsarya Priama Gektorom. Sam tsar' byl star i ne mog prinimat' uchastiye v voyne. Pomogala troyantsam i obshchaya ustalost' akheyskogo voyska, uzhe desyat' let bezuspeshno osazhdavshego Troyu. Kogda Agamemnon, proveryaya boyevoy dukh voinov, pritvorno predlozhil prekratit' voynu i vernut'sya domoy, akheytsy vstretili predlozheniye s vostorgom i ustremilis' k svoim korablyam. I tol'ko reshitel'nyye deystviya Odisseya ostanovili voinov i spasli polozheniye.
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The Greeks could not immediately take Troy, surrounded by powerful fortifications. They built a fortified camp on the seashore near their ships, began to devastate the outskirts of the city and attack the allies of the Trojans. In the tenth year of the siege, a dramatic event occurred that resulted in serious setbacks for the Achaeans in battles with the defenders of Troy. Agamemnon insulted Achilles by taking away the captive Briseis from him, and he, angry, refused to enter the battlefield. No amount of persuasion could convince Achilles to leave his anger and take up arms. The Trojans took advantage of the inaction of the most courageous and strong of their enemies and went on the offensive, led by the eldest son of King Priam, Hector. The king himself was old and could not take part in the war. The Trojans were also helped by the general fatigue of the Achaean army, which had been unsuccessfully besieging Troy for ten years. When Agamemnon, testing the morale of the warriors, pretended to offer to stop the war and return home, the Achaeans greeted the offer with enthusiasm and rushed to their ships. And only the decisive actions of Odysseus stopped the soldiers and saved the situation.
