WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mycenaeans fought a war with Troy, as legend has it, because the Trojan Prince Paris kidnapped, Helen, the beautiful wife of the Greek King Menelaus. Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon of Mycenae to attack Troy and return Helen to Greece.

Detailed explanation-2: -Assisted by Aphrodite, Paris convinced Helen to leave her husband and took her back with him to Troy. Menelaus and Agamemnon went after them, and the war that resulted lasted for ten years. Finally, due to Odysseus’ craftiness in devising the Trojan horse, the Trojans were defeated and Helen was returned to Menelaus.

Detailed explanation-3: -She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta “who became by her the father of Hermione, and, according to others, of Nicostratus also.” Her abduction by Paris of Troy was the most immediate cause of the Trojan War.