![]() ![]() In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. The stage is set for the oldest and greatest story ever told, where monstrous passions meet the highest ideals and the lowest cunning. The Greeks cannot defeat the Trojans - since Achilles, the Greek's boldest warrior, is consumed with jealousy over an ally's choice of lover, the Trojan slave Briseis, and will not fight. ![]() It is a terrible, brutal war with casualties on all sides. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and naturally, nature takes its course. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. ![]()
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