Aphrodite to the Rescue!

Hello All!

 

A lot has happened since I made my last post!


I decided to step up and take part in the battle. The way I did this was challenging an Achaean, Menelaus, to a duel, and whoever resides victor keeps Helen as their wife. After I made this offer, I thought of Helen and how she would feel if either of us died in a war that she believes was started because she left the Greeks to come with me. I wasn't acting like a coward as a certain brother might have pegged me for, I was just looking out for what was best for my beautiful girl. After thinking that over though, I thought maybe since I started the war I shouldn't have backed out of a duel, so after talking it over with Helen, I agreed to duel Menelaus. Menelaus broke his sword over my helmet and grabbed me by my helmet and dragged me until my helmet "broke". All of a sudden I saw Menelaus standing over me with a spear, and the next thing I knew I woke up in bed with Helen and we engaged in coitus. I didn't just magically get to my bed on my own, I had a little help from Aphrodite, so if you see her around, thank her for me!

The Greeks are searching for me, Shh! don't tell them where I am.

I heard around the palace that the men and women "upstairs" are having their own little feuds, and they decided to intervene in the war below as well. Zeus, on one hand, is stating that the Greeks have won, and that the war should cease. Hera, his wife, wants nothing less than the destruction of Troy...I wonder what side she's on! Zeus  gives way to Hera, and makes Athena dress as a Trojan and shoot an arrow at the Greeks!  That's when the bloodshed began! Someone from the Greek side, Diomedes, definitely had his Wheaties for breakfast, he was killing off our soldiers by the second. My brother, Hector, with help from Ares started killing off the Greeks, but then Hera and Athena were granted permission to help on the Greek side. Just when we started to look good, we got destroyed. Where are the Gods when we need them? 


Analysis:

I heard Helen crying the other day, because she felt she was the cause of this horrific war. My father went on to tell her that it was the will of the God's to have this battle play out. I thought talking to my father would help solve her problems, but she did not seem assured. Even when she came into bed with me after Aphrodite willed me away, she was acting strange. I wonder if she thought her brothers were not fighting because they didn't approve of her leaving. I hope she knows that in reality, they fought to their death to get her to come back home. My father and myself love her dearly, I hope she soon realizes that she is not the reason for all the death and destruction of this war.


I'll keep you as updated as everything progresses.
Until next time...
-Paris

"Never before as now has passion enmeshed my senses, not when I took you the first time from Lakedaimon the lovely and caught you up and carried you away in seafaring vessels, and lay with you in the bed of love on the island Kranae, not even then, as now, did I love you and sweet desire seize me."- Paris Book 3 lines 442-446