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What is Plot?
Ship-Gathering
Plot is the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
The kings set out to get Helen back and get vengance upon Troy. This is what started the war.
When Menelaus found out that Paris had run away with his wife, he was red with rage. He called for Agamemnon, the High King, for help. Agamemnon chose Nestor, Thisbe, Pytho, Ajax, Diometes, and Odysseus to help Menelaus get Helen back.
Single Combat
Hector told his brother that the war started because of him so he shouldn't be playing with his weapons, so Paris replied by saying "My brother, there is justice in your harsh words. But it is not cowardice that has held me here-grief for my ill-doing has made me weak, and I was only seeking a few breaths of time to gather my strength before going out again among my sword-companions. All that you say, Helen has but now been saying to me, and behold, you find me in the act of putting on my war gear."
Helen asked Hector of he wanted to stay for awhile but he declined because he wanted to say goodbye to his wife, Andromache. He left their house and went to his own. Andromache begged him not to go to war but he said that his fate was to fight for Troy. He said his last words to his son and left to go fit.
Andromache and Hector
Hector was told by the soothsayers to go to his mother, Hecuba, " 'and take the most splendid of all her jeweled robes, and go up to the temple of gray-eyed Athene and lay it across the knees of the sacred statue. And pray to Athene to cease from giving all her strength to the Greeks and show mercy to the people of Troy, who are people also." He did as he was told, but he did not go straight back to battle, he went to the house that his father built for Paris to speak with Helen. There he found his brother fretting over his armor and messing and with his bow. He also saw Helen working on a "rich tapestry" on the loom.
Women of Troy
On the day Zeus came back to Olympus, Thetis had begged him to give Troy victory because of Achilles' request. Even though he didn't want to, Zeus granted her demand.
The war could have ended between King Menelaus and Paris, but Athena wanted the peace to be broken between them. Athena got Prince Pandarus to shoot Menelaus. He shot him in the chest but it only gave him a wound.
He sent Agamemnon a false dream that said to, "make the war-host ready for battle." At first, Agamemnon believed it, but then he realized dreams can be fake. He called a meeting with the war counsel.
Agamemnon heard about this action and declared that if Menelaus died, the Greeks would leave Troy and the Trojans would win. This ended the truce between the Trojans and Greeks. Diomedes killed many people and left a trail of dead bodies behind him as he fought the Trojans.
Quarrel With the High King
Foundation
Foundation is the back story, or the setting. It is where the readers are introduced to the characters.
When the Greeks arrived at Troy they took all the girls. While fighting Troy they stayed on the beach for nine years. After ten years, Briseis and Chryseis were captured by Achilles.
The father of Chryseis had asked for Chryseis back, and because he was a priest for Apollo, Apollo got mad and shot arrows of plague at the Greek camp. Agamemnon had to give Chryseis back, so the camp would be safe. Agamemnon and Achilles became attached to Chryseis and Briseis so they didn't want to give them back. Agamemnon demanded that if he had to give back Chyrseis, then Achilles couldn't have Briseis. When Briseis was taken away from Achilles he was offended and told his mother, Thetis to tell Zeus that he should make the Trojans win, as a punishment to the Greek king, Agamemnon.
Chryseis
Briseis