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| edHelper's suggested reading level: | grades 4 to 6 | |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level: | 5.84 |
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Troy - Did It Really Exist?
By Vickie Chao |
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1 A long, long time ago, Homer told the story of a fight between the Trojans and the Greeks over a beautiful woman named Helen. Helen was once the queen of Sparta. One day, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, cast a spell on her. She made her fall for Paris, a Trojan prince. The couple eloped. When her husband, Menelaus, learned of the betrayal, he was very angry. He and his brother (Agamemnon) summoned all the great Greek heroes to join them. Together, they took Troy under siege. For ten years, the Greeks tried to overtake the Trojans, but to no avail. Eager to return home, they came up with a brilliant idea. They built a huge wooden horse and left it outside of the gates of Troy. The Trojans awoke in the morning. They saw the statue but did not know what it was for. At last, they found an abandoned Greek soldier named Sinon. They grilled him with lots of questions. Sinon said that the Greeks had all gone back to Greece. Before they departed, they made the wooden horse to please Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Sinon assured the Trojans that the war was really over. The Greeks simply had had enough of it and decided to call it quits. |
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