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Myths and Legends
The Trojan Horse

M any years ago the king of Greece had a beautiful wife named Helen

History remembers her as the face that launched a thousand ships
because the most heroic war of the ancient world was fought over her.

Greece's great rival was the kingdom of Troy, across the Aegean Sea. The king of
Troy had a son named Paris who fell in love with Helen and stole her away. The
Greeks demanded that Helen be returned, but the Trojans refused. So the Greek
army set sail in a thousand ships to attack.

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